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Japanese Proverb

Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather.

Nathan Hale

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less.

Lord Acton

The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

Alexis Carrel

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._

Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st the weary strif

Bruce Lee

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

Albert Camus

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Lord Nelson

England expects that every man will do his duty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Bernard Shaw

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Chauncey Wright

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

Buddha

To keep the body in good health is a duty. . . otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Japanese Proverb

Duty is heavy as a mountain but Death is lighter than a feather.

WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._

A light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove.

George Eliot

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

Mark Twain

Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

TENNYSON: _Love and Duty._

Shall Error in the round of time Still father Truth?

John Davidson Rockefeller, Sr.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility every opportunity an obligation every possession a duty.

Dick Gregory

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

George Carlin

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

John Morley

Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Robert Francis Kennedy

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Robert Schumann

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

WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice.

Benjamin Franklin

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

Rebecca West

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Joseph F. Newton

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._

The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!

Sam James Ervin, Jr.

There is nothing in the Constitution that authorizes or makes it the official duty of a president to have anything to do with criminal activities.

Albert Einstein

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

George Washington

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Norm Crosby

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Horace Bushnell

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

William Shakespeare

God bless thee and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty

John Locke

I think it every man's indispensable duty to do all the service he can to his country and I see not what difference he puts between himself and his cattle who lives without that thought.

Mark Siegler

The coming together of two laudable movements -- death with dignity and cost containment -- concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die

Bronwyn Davies

It is no longer my moral duty as a human being to achieve an integrated and unitary set of explanations for my thoughts and feelings.

Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Virginia

The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.

Douglas Noel Adams

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes.

Theodore Roosevelt

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Steven Runciman

I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man.

Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less.

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.

Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.

And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye.

"Duty? Your duty is to your father." Amanda "I know." Spock

"Duty! Duty! Is that all you think about!?!!?" -Hikaru

Thank God I have done my duty.

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

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with i

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Thank God, I have done my duty. Kiss me, Hardy.

The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Who escapes duty, avoids a gain.

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

It is the duty of every patriot to protect his country from its government.

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.

Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.

It is one of the worst of errors to suppose that there is any path for safety except that of duty.

When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.

To keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

God bless thee; and put meekness in thy mind, love, charity, obedience, and true duty!

A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty.

No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefor excused from saving Universes.

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfa

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we th

For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

"Bother" said Pooh, as he dropped his duty free coming through customs