On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
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When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance. To have some external job or duty to hang on to.
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Do something every day that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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Did is a word of achievement Won't is a word of defeat Might is a word of bereavement Can't is a word of defeat Ought is a word of duty Try is a word each hour Will is a word of beauty Can is a word of power.
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By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered
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The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.
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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
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Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! If that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st the weary strif
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If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
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How can you come to know yourself Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty.
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The dead cannot cry out for justice it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
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Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
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What a fearful object a long neglected duty gets to be
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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