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Duty Quotes by William Shakespeare
- God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!
- O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou…
- Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.
- The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo.
- Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in…
- It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all…
- Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him…
- Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and…
- My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do…
- My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing…
- Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man…
- Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband.
More Duty Quotes
- In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
- No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
- A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely,… — Charles Babbage
- Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss… — Charles Babbage
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in… — John Banville
- We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great… — Roy Barnes
- We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. — Dave Barry
- An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. — Jacques Barzun
- The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty… — Samuel Adams
- Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a… — Gary Bauer
- Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a… — Simone de Beauvoir