Duty Quotes

• "Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake."
  By: Douglas William Jerrold
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• "Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."
  By: Thomas Jefferson
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• "The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him."
  By: Wilhelm von Humboldt
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• "I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty:-- Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?"
  By: Ellen Sturgis Hooper, Duty
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• "I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing."
  By: Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb)
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• "Let us not run out of the path of duty, lest we run into the way of danger."
  By: Rowland Hill
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• "Then on! then on! where duty leads, My course be onward still."
  By: Reginald Heber, Journal
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• "The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty."
  By: William Hazlitt (1)
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• "Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God."
  By: Benjamin Robert Haydon
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• "Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action."
  By: Augustus William Hare
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• "There is generally no such thing as duty to the people who do it. They simply take life as it comes, meeting, not, shirking its demands, whether pleasant or unpleasant; and that is pretty much all there is of it."
  By: Gail Hamilton (pseudonym of Mary Abigail Dodge)
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• "Of an accountable creature, duty is the concern of every moment, since he is every moment pleasing or displeasing God."
  By: Robert Hall
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• "Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?"
  By: Anna Katharine Green, On the Threshold
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• "But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]"
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Spruche in Prosa (III, 151)
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• "Duty is the demand of the hour."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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• "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee."
  By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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