Laurence Sterne Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

  Laurence Sterne

  Mother, Father, Wish

  Tristram Shandy bk. 1, ch. 1 (1759 - 1767)

• Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

  Laurence Sterne

  Prayer, Easy, Duty

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.239

• There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage.

  Laurence Sterne

  Running, Responsibility, Theatre

• Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

  Laurence Sterne

  Children, Tears, Culprit

  Laurence Sterne, Melvyn New, Geoffrey Day (2006). “A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts”, p.239, Hackett Publishing

• The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.

  Laurence Sterne

  Passion, Heart, Character

• To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.

  Laurence Sterne

  Bible, Eye, Two

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