"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is……" — Charles Simmons
"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence and usefulness"
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32 Quotes by Charles Simmons
Charles Simmons has 32 quotes on this site.
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Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
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Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain…
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Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.
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Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of…
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A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.
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Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
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True greatness consists in being great in little things.
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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation,…
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Industry keeps the body healthy, the mind clear, the heart whole, and the purse full.
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If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.
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No man has a right to do as he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.
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More Duty Quotes
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
— Saint Augustine
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
— Saint Augustine
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right…
— Charles Babbage
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We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do…
— John Banville
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We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and…
— Roy Barnes
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go…
— Dave Barry
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as…
— Jacques Barzun
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators…
— Gary Bauer
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Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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