Duty Quotes
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised... This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax.
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We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.
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Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.
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“What part of your duty am I?" He squeezed her hand. "You're the ray of sun at the center of the storm.
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Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.
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It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.
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It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing.
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The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
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If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
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Taking care of people is the duty of every politician.
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The highest duty is to respect authority.
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Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
