Duty Quotes - Page 19

• The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

  Tom G. Palmer

  Government, Doe, Tickets

  Tom G. Palmer (2009). “Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice”, p.401, Cato Institute

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• Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Mother, Qualms About, Faithful

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.25, Anza Publishing

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• It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

  Bainbridge Colby

  Patriotic, Responsibility, Men

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• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fear, Lying, Knowing

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.44, University of Georgia Press

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• There is not a moment in which God does not present Himself under the cover of some pain to be endured, of some consolation to be enjoyed, or of some duty to be performed. All that takes place within us, around us, or through us, contains and conceals His divine action.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Pain, Doe, Action

  Jean-Pierre De Caussade (2007). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Evil, Sin

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• I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

  John Nelson Darby

  Teacher, Church, Desire

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• Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.

  Pierre Charron

  Gratitude

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• There may come a time in the career of every sociologist when it is his solemn duty to raise hell.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Careers, May, Hell

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• The foundation of a man's duty as a man is in truth. Beyond this there is nothing to be said.

  Torii Mototada

  Men, Foundation, Truth Is

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• It is our duty to do all we can to introduce every generation to Christ.

  Henrietta Mears

  Generations, Christ, Introducing

  Dr. Henrietta C. Mears (2016). “Sunday School Changes Everything”, p.15, NavPress

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• Duty reaches down the ages in its effects, and into eternity; and when the man goes about it resolutely, it seems to me now as though his footsteps were echoing beyond the stars, though only heard faintly in the atmosphere of this world.

  William Mountford

  Stars, Men, Atmosphere

  William Mountford (1858). “Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...”, p.174

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• Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.

  Chapman Cohen

  Religious, Independent, Men

  "The Freethinker", Vol. 84, G.W. Foote,(p. 215), 1964.

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• This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.

  Gerald Massey

  Other Worlds, Might, This World

  Gerald Massey (1851). “Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love”, p.2

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• Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Christian, Strong, Anxiety

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• It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

  Johann Arndt

  Christian, Mean, Blessing

  Johann Arndt (1868). “True Christianity: A Treatise on Sincere Repentance, True Faith, the Holy Walk of the True Christian, Etc”, p.51

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• From George Washington to George W. Bush, presidents have invoked God's name in the performance of their official duties.

  Linda Chavez

  Sea, Names, President

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• Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Rights, Sacred, Indispensable

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• I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?

  Pierre Loti

  Determination, Prayer, Vow

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• Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Heart, Firsts, Helping

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• Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

  Charles Simmons

  Good Man, Littles, Energy

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• I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see them at all, that we recoil and hide our eyes, and no one has ever cringed at the sight of a soybean factory. I also know phony arguments when I hear them--unbridled appetite passing itself off as altruism, and human arrogance in the guise of solemn 'duty.' We must, as C.S. Lewis advises, 'reject with detestation that covert propoganda for cruelty which tries to drive mercy out of the world by calling it names such as 'Humanitarianism' and 'Sentimentality.

  Matthew Scully

  Eye, Sight, Names

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• The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

  Gilbert Highet

  Real, Men, Soul

  Gilbert Highet (2015). “The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature”, p.549, Oxford University Press

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• To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Excellence, Contentment

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.15, Lulu.com

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