Duty Quotes

• "Rank imposes obligation."
  By: Unknown
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• "It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots."
  By: Unknown
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• "Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much."
  By: Unknown
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• "When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty."
  By: Unknown
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• "The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever."
  By: Virginia Woolf
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• "There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty."
  By: Woodrow T. Wilson
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• "It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you."
  By: Woodrow T. Wilson
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• "The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."
  By: Oscar Wilde
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• "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
  By: George Washington
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• "Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures."
  By: Voltaire French writer and philosopher (ps. of François Marie Arouet) (1694-1778)
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• "Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well."
  By: Peter Ustinov
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• "Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
  By: Mark Twain
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• "For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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