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72 quotesDuty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
Duty
John Fowles
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To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Modesty
Benjamin Franklin
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In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.
Sacrifice
James A. Froude
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
History and Historians
James A. Froude
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Good and Evil
Mahatma Gandhi
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Right and Rightness
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.
Government
William E. Gladstone
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Love can do much, but duty more.
Duty
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
Duty
Oliver Goldsmith
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When work is a pleasure, life is joy.! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
Work
Maxim Gorky
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
Duty
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.
Duty
Ellen Sturgis Hooper
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It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
Doctors
Thomas Horder
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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Compassion
Samuel Johnson
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Duty
Joseph Joubert
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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
Fidelity
Ellen Key
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Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Enemies
Stephen King
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Consult duty not events.
Duty
Walter Savage Landor
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To me Americanism means an imperative duty to be nobler than the rest of the world.
America
Meyer London
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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
Preparation
George Macdonald
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Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
Effort
David O. Mckay
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What is possible is our highest duty.
Duty
William E. Mclaren
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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Government
Lord Melbourne
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Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
Discretion
Hannah More
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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Justice
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun