"Never mind your happiness; do your duty." — Will Durant
"Never mind your happiness; do your duty."
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137 Quotes by Will Durant
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That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic,…
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Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.
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We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.
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Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.
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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people…
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Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood,…
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Nothing is new except arrangement.
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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
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History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection…
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There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid…
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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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