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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
It is our duty to make a leap into the future, and I believe that we will make it.
A duty religiously performed carries with it several other important consequences.
The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...
My business is to obey when the Lord commands, and this is the duty of all mankind.
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it.
You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.
Do not disturb the faith of any. . . Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others.
Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.
It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
It is our duty to love the unloved, help the helpless, and bring hope to the hopeless
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore
Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.
If you see deficiencies in others, your duty is to forgive instead of pointing at it.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty.
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
It's my duty to sell the ideas. But there's always a question when it comes to beauty.
The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.
Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.
You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.
I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me.
The pleasure that is granted to me from a sense of duty ceases to be a pleasure at all.
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.
Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.
The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.
It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
Besides the five senses, there is a sixth sense, of equal importance--the sense of duty.
It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.
To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
It's our duty to get them the things they need when they need it. And it's not happening.
If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.
Getting out of jury duty is easy. The trick is to say you're prejudiced against all races.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded, but is commanded because it is beneficial.