"Live in the present tense, facing the duty……" — William DeWitt Hyde

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• In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine
• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
• A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time… — Charles Babbage
• Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right… — Charles Babbage
• We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
• Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do… — John Banville
• We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and… — Roy Barnes
• We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go… — Dave Barry
• An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as… — Jacques Barzun
• The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is… — Samuel Adams
• Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators… — Gary Bauer
• 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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