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Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
Your duty is to treat everybody with love as a manifestation of the Lord.
duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.
The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.
Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.
Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.
Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.
To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.
Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.
God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.
Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.
Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.
The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.
Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.
We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.
No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.
Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.
Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.