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Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 4)
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our
duty.
Author: Joseph Addison
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.
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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.
Author: Book of Common Prayer
Source: Catechism
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Not aw'd to duty by superior sway.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Eleonora (l. 178)
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Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
Author: John Dryden
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.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
Source: Agatha
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
Author: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Author: Henry Fielding
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.
Author: James Anthony Froude
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.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Spruche in Prosa (III, 151)
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Hath the spirit of all beauty
Kissed you in the path of duty?
Author: Anna Katharine Green
Source: On the Threshold
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Then on! then on! where duty leads,
My course be onward still.
Author: Bishop Reginald Heber
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?
Author: Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Source: Duty
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Take up the White Man's burden.
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Source: The White Man's Burden
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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.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: The Biglow Papers (no. 11)
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The things which must be, must be for the best,
God helps us do our duty and not shrink,
And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.
Author: Lord Lytton (Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton) ("Owen Meredith")
Source: Imperfection
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Straight is the line of duty;
Curved is the line of beauty;
Follow the straight line, thou shalt see
The curved line ever follow thee.
Author: William MacCall
Source: Duty
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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.
Author: Giuseppe Mazzini
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.
Author: Giuseppe Mazzini
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.
Author: Lord Milner
Source: in a speech in Glasgow
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Left that command
Sole daughter of his voice.
Author: John Milton
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.
Author: Lewis Morris
Source: Epic of Hades, quoted by Hohn Bright at Unveiling of Cobden Statue
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England expects that every man will do his duty.
Author: Lord Horatio Nelson
Source: Life of Nelson (ch. 9)
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If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.
Author:
Source: None
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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.
Author: Matthew Prior
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.
Author: James Jeffrey Roche
Source: Sir Hugo's Choice
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Alas! when duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: The Playing Infant
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My noble father,
I do perceive here a divided duty.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: William Shakespeare
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.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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.
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
Source: Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (st. 8)
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Simply duty hath no place for fear.
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
Source: Tent on the Beach--Abraham Davenport (last line)
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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.
Author: William Wordsworth
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!
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Ode to Duty
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Stern Daughter of the Voice of God.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Ode to Duty
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Who art a light to guide, a rod
To check the erring, and reprove.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Ode to Duty
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Duty cannot exist without faith.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: None
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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.
Author: Mahatma Ghandi
Source: None
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What is possible is our highest duty.
Author: William E. Mclaren
Source: None
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It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Author: Bhagavad Gita
Source: None
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Where there are no rights, there are no duties.
Author: Henri Benjamin Rebecque
Source: None
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Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Source: None
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
Author: John D. Rockefeller
Source: None
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Author: Thomas Szasz
Source: None
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