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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

If I am going to pick and choose the laws I defend, I wouldn't be doing my duty as attorney general.

If you have any duty which must be done, and it seems disagreeable, do it promptly and have it over.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

Some really famous people, even when they're off-duty, have this energy that is sort of overpowering.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

happiness is a duty, not only because of its effect upon us but because of its influence upon others.

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!

It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment).

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.

All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]

The march to our duty here, not merely to ourselves, but to our surroundings, must proceed. God wills it.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

We have a duty as the state to protect our economy... We are for the protection of intellectual property.

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.

It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

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