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• Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father.

  Thomas Brooks

  Father, Vanity, Years

  Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.144

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• It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Men

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.189, Zondervan

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• I believe that every Christian ought to be joined to some visible church; that is his
  plain duty, according to the Scriptures. God’s people are not dogs, else they might go
  about one by one; but they are sheep, and therefore they should be in flocks.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Dog, Believe

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• The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Soldier, Active

  William Gurnall (1994). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.15, Moody Publishers

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• It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.

  John Flavel

  Saint, States, Stage

  John flavel, Rev Terry Kulakowski (2017). “The Mystery of Providence”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• And we wonder what can be that 'philosophy of education' which believes that young people can be trained to the duties of citizenship by wrapping their minds in cotton wool.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Philosophy, Believe, People

  "Who is Loyal to America?". "Harper's Magazine", Vol. 195, No. 1168, September 1947.

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• Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
  Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.

  George Peele

  Flower, Roots, Fading

  'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'

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• For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Practice, Needs

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• I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

  Mary Oliver

  Thinking, Feelings, Lines

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• On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and best wishes to the men and women of India who will henceforth be a citizen of a republic. I feel deeply thankful for the affection showered on me by all sections of the people, which alone enabled me to hear the burden of an office to the duties and conventions of which I had been an utter stranger.

  C. Rajagopalachari

  Men, People, Best Wishes

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• I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

  David O. Russell

  Writing, Jury Duty, Jury

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• Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

  George Whitefield

  Good Christian, Christianity, Known

  "Seventy-five Sermons on Various Important Subjects".

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• It is your duty in life to save your dream.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Dream, Your Dreams

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• Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Hard Work, Self, Evil

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• Having babies is a blessing, not a duty.

  Betty Ford

  Baby, Blessing, Having A Baby

  "Former First Lady Betty Ford Dies at Age 93", www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2011.

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• Love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, boredom. Relationships fail not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.

  James Hillman

  Love, Imagination, Boredom

  James Hillman (2012). “The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life”, p.186, Ballantine Books

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• In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

  Zachary Taylor

  Constitution, Guides, Protect

  John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

  Karl Kraus

  Artist, Vain, Modest

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into
  a tender and subtle offering, what is crude into an object of refinement, what
  is ugly into a thing of beauty, confrontation into collaboration, ignorance into
  knowledge, hereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality
  incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Dream, Children, Ignorance

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• No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

  Roger Penrose

  Teacher, Parent, Magic

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• I now add, farther, that the apostles argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  People, Office, Design

  Jonathan Mayhew (1969). “Sermons: Seven Sermons: A Discourse, Concerning the Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers. The Snare Broken”

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• I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event [Lincoln's assassination] which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perform duties so important and responsible as those which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.

  Andrew Johnson

  Important, Events, Overwhelmed

  Inaugural Address. Sunday Morning Chronicle, Washington, www.gutenberg.org. April 16, 1865.

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• Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable to fly far from their own shores. To provide resting places for them, where they can coal and repair, would be one of the first duties of a government proposing to itself the development of the power of the nation at sea.

  Alfred Thayer Mahan

  Military, War, Government

  Alfred Thayer Mahan (2010). “Sea Power and World History: 1660-1783”, p.48, Fireship Press

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• What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a global citizen. Your history dictates your duty. And by writing about black people, you are not limiting yourself. The experiences of African-Americans are as wide open as God's closet.

  August Wilson

  Writing, Responsibility, Artist

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• The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Breakfast, Firsts, Get Away

  Abbie Hoffman (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.116, Da Capo Press

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