"The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire."

Alger, William R. · Duty · 2 fans >>
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"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

Augustine, St. · Duty · 1 fans >>
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"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."

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"Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."

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

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"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."

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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 · Duty · 1 fans >>
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"Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven."

Corneille, Pierre · Duty · 1 fans >>
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"Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry today's duties and tomorrow's anxieties piled on the top of them."

Cuyler, Theodore L. · Duty · 0 fans >>
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"Duty cannot exist without faith."

Disraeli, Benjamin · Duty · 0 fans >>
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