Duty Quotes
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Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
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The most difficult achievement is the capacity to see oneself, to name oneself, to imagine oneself. If in daily life we use ideologies, common sense, religion, even literature itself to disguise our experiences and make them presentable, in fiction it’s possible to sweep away all the veils—in fact, perhaps, it’s a duty.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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Everyday hundreds of people came to the hospital... dying, and I have to introduce life into them again... my duty was to compete with death.
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Your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
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I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perhaps it's good to have a sense of duty, a jealous zeal to protect or improve, but pride ultimately is only that which stands vulnerable to offense and degradation.
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Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.
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The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
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I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty; that all may live above the troubles of life; that worry is a poison and happiness a medicine.
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The sense of duty pursues us ever.
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A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.
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Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.
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Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.
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Time and again they have told us we are obligated, we have our duty, we must be willing to fight against whatever it is that threatens. We have been told to ask about everything: Will it leave us free?
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One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
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Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
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I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing.
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Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.
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This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
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Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall be true for the future.
