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“Why must duty require me to break my own heart?”
“True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrongdoing by its prohibitions.”
“Duty comes in many forms; at times duty to country may conflict with duty to family. Yet, with a lucid mind the guises can be torn away and in the end, duty becomes but one, and that duty is to val...”
“Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).”
“Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.”
“We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.”
“Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn't melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.”
“When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.”
“The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. Its not all about fun. Its not always easy.”
“A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but i...”
“Mary was proud of her husband, not merely because he was a musician, but because he was a blacksmith. For, with the true taste of a right woman, she honored the manhood that could do hard work. The...”
“But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.”
“What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying the end of their labours and sufferings, what a life would you lead after such a sight as ...”
“In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will come when the author of a view shall be set aside, and t...”
“One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.”
“Work done is of more consequence for the future than the foresight of an angel.”
“Your fear is, that if you marry Adle, you will love her. If you have children, you will love them more than anything else in the world, more than patriotism, more than democracy. If your children g...”
“It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together.”
“It's his duty. A good healer can't pick and choose. If he can help, then he must.”
“In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?In her contempt and dread of yielding to mere amorous weakness had she st...”
