Quotes with duties

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  • Calvin Coolidge In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Sir Humphry Davy 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.
    Sir Humphry Davy
    British chemist and inventor
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  • Becki Newton My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
    Becki Newton
    American actress (1978 - )
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  • William Gilmore Simms Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
    William Gilmore Simms
    American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Sir William Osler One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
    Sir William Osler: Aphorisms (1961) p. 105
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Bhumibol Adulyadej Our country will be stabilized, with all key establishments in society working in unity with full awareness among Thais of their duties and responsibilities.
    Bhumibol Adulyadej
    Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henry Drummond Property has its duties as well as its rights.
    Letter to the Earl of Donoughmore, 22-5-1838
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Theodore L. Cuyler Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them.
    Theodore L. Cuyler
    American Presbyterian minister and religious writer
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  • Bob McDonnell The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Felix Adler The family is the school of duties... founded on love.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Confucius The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Sir William Osler The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Abba Eban The Jews are the living embodiment of the minority, the constant reminder of what duties societies owe their minorities, whoever they might be.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Georges Bernanos The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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