The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

if you ask me, nobody really likes people who are always doing their duty.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

The right of personal freedom recedes before the duty to preserve the race.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Every duty, even the least duty, involves the whole principle of obedience.

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

Remain at your post and do your duty - for the glory of God and His kingdom.

Spiritually speaking, every human being has a destiny and a duty to perform.

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community.

Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

The ultimate necessity is the summoning of the mind and will to do their duty.

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

The times are squalid. They always were. It is a poet's duty to hold the line.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

No man ever properly calculates from time to time what it is his duty to avoid.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

The duty of the church is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.

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