If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A lively and lasting sense of filial duty is more effectually impressed on the mind of a son or daughter by reading… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christianity, by introducing into Europe the truest principles of humanity, universal benevolence, and brotherly love, had happily abolished civil slavery. Let us… — Richard Henry Lee Copy Share Image
Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is as much our duty to live in the beauty of the presence of God on some mount of transfiguration until… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
I ... am endeavoring ... to attend to my own duty only as a Christian. ... let us take care that our… — William Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The world is ruled by neither justice nor morality; crime is not punished nor virtue rewarded, one is forgotten as quickly as… — Tadeusz Borowski Copy Share Image
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I should like to believe my people's religion, which was just what I could wish, but alas, it is impossible. I have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That's why I like to read a lot. That's why I try to keep up on current events, what's going on in… — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
The body is a boat that carries the soul in the ocean of the world. If it is not strong, or it… — Baba Hari Dass Copy Share Image
My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility… — Zachary Taylor Copy Share Image
Do today's duty, fight today's temptation; do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see, and could… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The language of politics is spoken in the first-person plural, and for Conservatives, the duty of the politician is to maintain that… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There are at present many Coloured men in the Confederate Army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and labourers, but real… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
We thought it was our duty to go and warn people of the consequences of their sins, and I understood that to… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Communication is truth; communication is happiness. To share is our duty; to go down boldly and bring to light those hidden thoughts… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in… — Allen West Copy Share Image
I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
[A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
At a time when many Muslims in this country are living in fear, I want to say loud and clear that as… — George Carey Copy Share Image
I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way. ...… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
This is the way to cultivate courage: First, by standing firm on some conscientious principle, some law of duty. Next, by being… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We have abolished human bondage because it cursed those who imposed it. It is now our bounden duty to oppose cruelty to… — S. Parkes Cadman Copy Share Image
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