Duty Quotes

• "There is no evil that we cannot either face or fly from, but the consciousness of duty disregarded. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed, or duty violated, is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us. We cannot escape their power, nor fly from their presence. They are with us in this life, will be with us close; and in that scene of inconceivable solemnity, which lies yet farther onward we shall still find ourselves surrounded by the consciousness of duty, to pain us wherever it has been violated, and to console us so far as God may have given us grace to perform it."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "The most fruitful and elevating influence I have ever seemed to meet has been my impression of obligation to God."
  By: Daniel Webster
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• "The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the progress of the former by inculcating the practice of the latter."
  By: George Washington
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• "Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer."
  By: Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
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• "In every profession the daily and common duties are the most useful."
  By: Unknown
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• "Attention is our first duty whenever we want to know what is our second duty. There is no such cause of confusion and worry about what we ought to do, and how to do it, as our unwillingness to bear what God would tell us on that very point."
  By: Henry Clay Trumbull
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• "Duty, especially out of the domain of love, is the veriest slavery in the world."
  By: Timothy Titcomb (pseudonym of Josiah Gilbert Holland)
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• "There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere besides the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good. I am sure no other is comparable to this."
  By: John Tillotson
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• "The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves."
  By: John Tillotson
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• "Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity."
  By: Henry David Thoreau
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• "Not once or twice in our rough island story, The path of duty was the way to glory."
  By: Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington (st. 8)
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• "We have an intuitive sense of our duty."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "There are not good things enough in life to indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty."
  By: Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff)
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• "To me there is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson
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• "There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy."
  By: Robert Louis Stevenson
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• "Speak, Lord, our souls are hushed to hear what Thou hast to say to us. Great is the stake, overwhelming may be the risks--most glorious are the opportunities. Speak, Lord, and show us what our duty is--how high, how difficult, yet how happy, how blessed--show us what our duty is, and, O great God and Father, give us strength to do it."
  By: Dean Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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