Duty Quotes
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I believe it is one's duty to paint the rich and magnificent aspects of nature. We need gaiety and happiness, hope and love.
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The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.
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It's gotten to a point where everybody is concerned about their rights and nobody is concerned about their duties.
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I feel it my duty to plod on while daylight last.
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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.
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It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.
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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.
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May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.
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All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
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Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
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The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all.
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Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty.
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It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under.
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
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Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.
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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.
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Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts which are the most diseased; to conceal nothing; to pretend nothing; if we are ignorant to say so; if we love our friends to let them know it.
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Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.
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Love is the only duty that we know.
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It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
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Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
