Duty Quotes
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One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
William Carey
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All quiet along the Potomac tonight, no sound save the rush of the river, while soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, the picket's off duty forever.
Ethel Lynn Beers
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Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King
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Awake my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run.
Thomas Ken
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No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
Benjamin Carson
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Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.
Horace Greeley
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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."
Elias Lyman Magoon
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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!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The true source of rights is duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Ornella Muti
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Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met.
Elizabeth Prentiss
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
Thomas Carlyle
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There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them; to take a course that will not tend to drive those spirits into families of the wicked, where they will be trained in wickedness, debauchery, and every species of crime. It is the duty of every righteous man and woman to prepare tabernacles for all the spirits they can.
This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits which are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth.
Brigham Young
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Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.
John Ruskin
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You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote.
David Barton
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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.
William Shakespeare
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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?
Erica Jong
