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Quotes about duty
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. (Burns John)
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. (Burns John)
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. (Burns John)
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. (Burns John)
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When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty. (Burns John)
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven. (Burns John)
Duty cannot exist without faith. (Burns John)
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. (Burns John)
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. (Burns John)
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. (Burns John)
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. (Burns John)
Love can do much, but duty more. (Burns John)
But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. (Burns John)
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. (Burns John)
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. (Burns John)
It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots. (Burns John)
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. (Burns John)
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. (Burns John)
Consult duty not events. (Burns John)
Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less. (Burns John)
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty. (Burns John)
What is possible is our highest duty. (Burns John)
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. (Burns John)
Rank imposes obligation. (Burns John)
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. (Burns John)
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