Quotes 161 till 180 of 235.
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The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
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The changes in the chief and the assistant chief surgeon were most noticeable. At first they felt that they were just fulfilling their duty to the injured worker but were very dubious about the result. But then, full of confidence they really began doing their best.
A Battle For Life -
The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.
Angelina Grimke
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) , p. 20 -
The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.
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The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.
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The first duty of love is to listen.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
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The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
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The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.
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