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"When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty."
- Cooley, Charles Horton

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/11678">When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/1675/">Cooley, Charles Horton</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/duty/">Duty</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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