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• Life is of little value unless it be consecrated by duty.

  Samuel Smiles

  Littles, Life Is, Values

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

  Pierre Corneille

  Heaven, Duty And Honor

  "Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene viii, 1639.

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• Duty cannot exist without faith

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Benjamin Disraeli (1847). “Tancred: Or, The New Crusade”, p.139

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• Duty is not collective; it is personal.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Collectives

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Truth, Men, Firsts

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• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Sad, Military

  Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 3

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• Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

  Joseph Joubert

  Together, Life Is, Togetherness

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• It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.

  Alfred Adler

  Country, Lying, Patriotic

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• Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

  George Eliot

  Pain, People, Literature

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.592, George Eliot

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• A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life.

  Plato

  Men, Water Of Life, Doctrine

  Plato (1970). “Great dialogues of Plato”, Plume

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• Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

  John Ruskin

  Should Have, Known, Should

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• Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Power, Two Nations, Welfare Programs

  Benjamin Disraeli (1845). “Sybil, Or, The Two Nations”, p.315

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• We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

  George Lincoln Rockwell

  Government, America, People

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• Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Inspirational, Success, Teamwork

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• So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Dust, Youth

  'Voluntaries' no. 3 (1867)

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• How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reflection, Action, Knows

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• The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And trust His mercy humbly for the rest.

  Bill Vaughan

  Helping, Mercy, Best God

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• Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

  George Washington

  Inspiring, Inspiration, 4th Of July

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.162

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• It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

  Thomas Szasz

  Selfish, Easier, Ifs

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1973). “The second sin”, Anchor

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• The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Military, Citizens, Weight

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 11 Nov. 1902

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• Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

  Robert E. Lee

  Gratitude, Army, Wish

  John Esten Cooke, Robert E. Lee (2017). “General Robert E. Lee: The True Story of the Infamous “Marble Man”: The Life & Legacy of Robert E. Lee, Including & Personal Writings, Speeches and Orders”, p.43, Madison & Adams

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• Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

  George W. Bush

  Leadership, Country, Character

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• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

  Humphry Davy

  Life, Family, Smile

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.448

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• A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Integrity, Responsibility, Men

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Army, Undone

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