Duty Quotes

• "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Voluntaries (st. 3, l. 13)
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• "You will always find those who think they know your duty better than you know it."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Thus is man made equal to every event. He can face danger for the right. A poor, tender, painful body, he can run into flame or bullets or pestilence, with duty for his guide."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass."
  By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• "Duty only frowns when you flee from it; follow it, and it smiles upon you."
  By: Elizabeth, nee Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise (used ps Carmen Sylva)
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• "And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was service; humblest service done By willing and discerning souls was glory."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), Agatha
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• "The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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• "Man cannot choose his duties."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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• "As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier, who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in; hears plainly enough the word of command which he must himself obey."
  By: George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross)
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• "Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it."
  By: Tryon Edwards
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• "Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed."
  By: John Dryden, To Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy "The Double Dealer"
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• "Stern duties need not speak sternly. He who stood firm before the thunder worshipped the "still small voice.""
  By: Sydney Thompson Dobell
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• "A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law."
  By: Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
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• "It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism."
  By: Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater")
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• "Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free."
  By: Mazo de la Roche
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• "When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must trust charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty; but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps heaven will show us the reason why."
  By: Mrs. Craik (pseudonym of Dinah Maria Mulock)
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