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Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Let every lion do his duty.

Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.

Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

Let us do our duty well; let us go straight to God; let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable.

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.

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

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

Love is the outlaw's duty.

Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Make Him your friend and protector and your felicity is secured both here and hereafter. And with respect to particular duties to Him, it is your happiness that you are well assured that he best serves his Maker, who does most good to his country and to mankind.

Man's destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

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

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

My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own.

Nations begin to dig their own graves when men talk more of human rights and less of human duties.

My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

New occasions teach new duties.

Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .