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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.

TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.

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

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

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

To me, the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency were not prizes to be won, but a duty to be done.

[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.

We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody, and the pleasure of pleasing ought to be greatest, and at last always will be greatest, when our endeavours are exerted in consequence of our duty.

Transparency is for those who carry out public duties and exercise public power. Privacy is for everyone else.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit.

We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either.

We have forgotten that our sovereign duty is to leave the world in a better condition than when we each entered it

We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.

We must give ourselves more earnestly and intelligently and generously than we have to the happy duty of appreciation.

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.

"We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them.

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

We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality.

We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.

What is the duty of a Latter-day Saint? To do all the good he can upon the earth.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

When she was rested. she'd find a way to escape. It was the duty of the captive, wasn't it?

When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.

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

When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

You have not fulfilled every duty unless you have fulfilled that of being pleasant.

Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.