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  • "Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."
    By: Ellen Key
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  • "Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together."
    By: Joseph Joubert
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  • "The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty."
    By: Samuel Johnson
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  • "The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."
    By: Washington Irving
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  • "When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism."
    By: Robert Green Ingersoll
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  • "The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
    By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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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."
    By: Dag Hammarskjöld
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  • "But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all."
    By: Oliver Goldsmith
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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."
    By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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  • "It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."
    By: William E. Gladstone
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  • "The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven."
    By: David Lloyd George
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  • "Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."
    By: Mahatma Gandhi
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  • "The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
    By: James A. Froude
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  • "In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty."
    By: James A. Froude
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  • "When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more."
    By: Henry Fielding
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  • "The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another."
    By: George Eliot
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