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First Duty Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and…
- The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of…
More First Duty Quotes
- My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only… — David Brin
- The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. — Thomas Carlyle
- The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable… — Alexis Carrel
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison
- The first duty of society is justice. — Alexander Hamilton
- The first duty of life is to live. — Burt Lancaster
- The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be… — George Bernard Shaw
- Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others… — Maurice Maeterlinck
- It is our first duty to serve society. — Samuel Johnson
- Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way,… — Wallace D. Wattles
- The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. — James Anthony Froude