Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy. — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is no less the duty of the minority than a majority to endeavour to defend the country. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do. — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty… — Edith Pattou Copy Share Image
“A woman keeps to home and family, and tends to matters inside the home. A man keeps to war games and tends… — Susan Fraser King Copy Share Image
It is tragic to have to realize that the best I had to give as a soldier, obedience, and loyalty, was exploited… — Wilhelm Keitel Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one… — Victor Cherbuliez Copy Share Image
Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Companies that understand the purpose and philosophy behind the "why" are usually astute, high- performing organizations that tap directly into the pulse… — Don Yaeger Copy Share Image
Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty? — Anna Katharine Green Copy Share Image
But, sir, I shall take the path of duty and shall not swerve from it. — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
“The first duty of love❤️ is to listen, the second duty is too help ✌️” — Timothy Pina Copy Share Image
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image