Best His Duty Quotes
96 His Duty quotes by 75 unique authors
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The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world.In a world…
— Norman Bethune
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He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've…
— Eddie Campbell
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A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home.…
— Lottie Moon
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his…
— George Eliot
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No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during…
— Christopher Dawson
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I want to sleep for eternity with a broad smile on my face. I want those who remain behind to say this man has done…
— Nelson Mandela
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England expects every man to do his duty
— Horatio Nelson
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There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself;…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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I ask of each Mason, of each member, of each brother, that he shall remember ever that there is upon him a peculiar obligation to…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beatifying that…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Every member of the society spies on the rest, and it is his duty to inform against them. All are slaves and equal in their…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse. . . .…
— Confucius
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The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of…
— Hermann Hesse
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Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in…
— Swami Vivekananda
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What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty…
— Francis Galton
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That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in…
— William Penn
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He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So…
— Charles Dickens
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I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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No legal ceremony--no election of the woman--no penalty for the perfidy of the man--no law to compel him to do his duty, no compensation for…
— Victoria Woodhull
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I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
— Ian Fleming
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