Duties Quotes

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Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer. — Francois Fenelon
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by… — Baron d'Holbach
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute… — George Meredith
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions.… — Mother Teresa
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. — Immanuel Kant
The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties... — Meher Baba
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory. — John Donne
The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave,… — Rajneesh
Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural… — Charles Spurgeon
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe… — Winston Churchill
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
New occasions teach new duties. — James Russell Lowell
When habit has strengthened our sense of duties, they leave us no time for other things; but when young we neglect them and this gives… — Thomas Jefferson
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no political rights. An ant doesn't… — Clarence Day
Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural… — Thomas Jefferson
Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care… — Lysander Spooner
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to… — George Washington
...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called… — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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