Duty Quotes
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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
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And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.
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We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
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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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Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.
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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 think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.
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Serving jury duty is a fascinating little slice of life, with its motley crew of personalities.
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Force is the duty of the state, not Hizbullah.
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
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A sense of duty imprisons you.
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The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter.
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The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
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What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.
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It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.
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It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
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It is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to believe that God is Almighty, but also to strongly believe that His almighty power is engaged for our defense and help in all of our straits and temptations.
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The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations.
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All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all neglect such employments, else the race would become extinct. Each has his business to perform, his part to act. It is a duty he owes to the rest as well as to himself.
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We grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
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Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy.
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We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.
