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We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies. — Thomas Jefferson
When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called. — Bill Shuster
Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best… — Benjamin Franklin
God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty! — William Shakespeare
What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. — Immanuel Kant
I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal, is the same… — Thomas S. Monson
Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make… — George Carlin
The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties... — Meher Baba
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. — Steven Pressfield
Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his… — Jacques Monod
We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more… — Charles Spurgeon
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of… — Herbert Spencer
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind… — Richard Courant
Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest. — David O. McKay
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you. — Woodrow Wilson
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. — Blaise Pascal
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
This is our special duty, that if anyone specially needs our help, we should give him such help to the utmost of our power. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law. — Oliver Goldsmith
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
Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty. — Woodrow Wilson
To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty. — Alexander MacLaren

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