Duty Quotes
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No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
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Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?
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Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
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Violence is sometimes a duty.
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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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The gospel does not abolish industry, but changes its nature and chief design; it dignifies toil, mitigates the evils connected therewith, and creates new motives to diligence. The triumph achieved on Calvary never was designed to supersede the duty of close application to enterprising duty. Its first command compels us to some honorable and useful pursuit. Its language is," Study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands as we commanded you." " If any man will not work, neither let him eat."
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On the one hand, it is a duty, and on the other hand it is a pleasure to help those who feel worse than you.
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Words can cause real harm and interfere with a person's education. Campuses have a duty to act-- sometimes legally, always morally-- to protect their students from injury.
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Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
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One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
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You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.
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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
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Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
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Thoughts are not subject to duty.
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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
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Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.
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My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.
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He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
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The true source of rights is duty.
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You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.
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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
