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Thet tells the story! Thet's wut we shall git
By tryin' squirtguns on the burnin' Pit;
For the day never comes when it'll du
To kick off dooty like a worn-out shoe.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: The Biglow Papers (no. 11)
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Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound
to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will
derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that
duty.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Quotes , Source: Life and Writings--Young Europe--General Principles
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What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.
Giuseppe Mazzini
Quotes , Source: Life and Writings--Young Europe--General Principles
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If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to
prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and to damn the
consequences.
Lord Milner
Quotes , Source: in a speech in Glasgow
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Left that command
Sole daughter of his voice.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 652)
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Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb;
Duty is the path that all may tread.
Lewis Morris
Quotes , Source: Epic of Hades, quoted by Hohn Bright at Unveiling of Cobden Statue
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If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.
Unknown
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If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.
Unknown
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Thy sum of duty let two words contain,
(O may they graven in thy heart remain!)
Be humble and be just.
Matthew Prior
Quotes , Source: Solomon on the Vanity of the World (bk. III)
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And I read the moral--A brave endeavour
To do thy duty, whate'er its worth,
Is better than life with love forever,
And love is the sweetest thing on earth.
James Jeffrey Roche
Quotes , Source: Sir Hugo's Choice
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My noble father,
I do perceive here a divided duty.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Desdemona at I, iii)
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And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers,
Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her;
And, where I thought the remnant of mine age
Should have been cherished by her childlike duty,
I now am full resolved to take a wife
And turn her out to who will take her in.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Duke of Milan at III, i)
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always
declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
Quotes , Source: Caesar and Cleopatra
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Not once or twice in our rough island story,
The path of duty was the way to glory.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Quotes , Source: Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (st. 8)
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The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
William Wordsworth
Quotes , Source: Excursion (bk. IX)
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Give unto me, made lowly wise,
The spirit of self-sacrifice;
The confidence of reason give;
And in the light of truth thy
Bondman let me live!
William Wordsworth
Quotes , Source: Ode to Duty
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Ghandi
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