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“Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.”
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes |
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“I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life”
Plato Quotes |
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“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort”
Humphrey Davy Quotes |
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“True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient”
Seneca Quotes |
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“Do your duty today and repent tomorrow”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.”
Robert E. Lee Quotes |
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men”
George Orwell Quotes |
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“It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children”
African Proverb Quotes |
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“There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes |
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“Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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“In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our
duty.”
Joseph Addison Quotes Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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“He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and
will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes Source: Life Thoughts
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“To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please
God to call me.”
Book of Common Prayer Quotes Source: Catechism
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“Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Eleonora (l. 178)
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“Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: To Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy "The Double Dealer"
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“And rank for her meant duty, various,
Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.
Command was service; humblest service done
By willing and discerning souls was glory.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: Agatha
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“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: Daniel Deronda (bk. VI, ch. XLVI)
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“So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Voluntaries (st. 3, l. 13)
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“When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.”
Henry Fielding Quotes Source: The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great (act I, sc. 3)
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“In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive
duty.”
James Anthony Froude Quotes Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects--Sea Studies
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“But what is your duty? What the day demands.
[Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes Source: Spruche in Prosa (III, 151)
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“Hath the spirit of all beauty
Kissed you in the path of duty?”
Anna Katharine Green Quotes Source: On the Threshold
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“Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still.”
Bishop Reginald Heber Quotes Source: Journal
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“I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty;
I woke, and found that life was Duty:--
Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?”
Ellen Sturgis Hooper Quotes Source: Duty
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“Take up the White Man's burden.”
Rudyard Kipling Quotes Source: The White Man's Burden
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