Children Quote by Thomas Jefferson

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

— Elizabeth von Arnim

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

— Tryon Edwards

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“The idea that reading is a moral quality has unhappily led many conscientious persons to renounce their innocuous dalliance with light literature for more…

— Edith Wharton

“Better one’s own duty, bereft of merit, than another’s well-performed; better is death in the discharge of one’s duty; another’s duty is fraught with…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.

— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I was induced to establish several orders of merit, from conviction that emulation, well directed, becomes a useful servant; and, that the latent genius…

— Joseph Lancaster

That discipline which corrects the eagerness of worldly passions, which fortifies the heart with virtuous principles, which enlightens the mind with useful knowledge, and…

— Robert Blair

Such a superiority do the pursuits of literature possess above every other occupation, that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them, merits…

— David Hume

Greatness of mind becomes an object of love only when the power at work in it itself has a noble character

— Karl Jaspers

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley