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Duties have been mine; consequences are God's. -- Andrew Johnson
I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself. -- Henrik Ibsen
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures. -- Charles Inglis
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. -- Marlene Dietrich
Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions. -- William Whewell
Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes. -- Richard Cecil
Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself. -- Mark Twain
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. -- Tom Clancy
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. -- Tom Clancy
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. -- Charlotte Bronte
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. -- Immanuel Kant
If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning. -- Simon Cowell
One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. -- William Osler
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. -- Walter Scott
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. -- Thomas Paine
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. -- Thomas Huxley
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. -- Linus Pauling
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties. -- Marquis de Lafayette
From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important. -- Russ Carnahan
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life. -- William Law
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort. -- Humphry Davy
Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
I'm not a princess. My mother is, not I. I am the niece of a head of state. And with this status, I have some representational duties - nothing very constraining or very exceptional. -- Charlotte Casiraghi
I'm going to be a happy housewife. I'm going to be washing boxers and cooking and doing all those sorts of housewife duties. I just want to be happy and proud of every single day. -- Johnny Weir
A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science. -- Charles Babbage
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. -- John Marshall
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own. -- J. M. Coetzee
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. -- Robert Peel
Across the country military families are facing dire financial circumstances due to longer than expected tours of duties. They are being penalized for their patriotism - no one should have to choose between doing right by their country and doing right by their families. -- Evan Bayh
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy. -- Saint Ambrose
I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style. -- Camila Alves
Man cannot choose his duties. -- George Eliot
New occasions teach new duties. -- James Russell Lowell
Thou art relieved of thy duties! -- Vince McMahon
Happy the man who knows his duties! -- Christian Furchtegott Gellert
A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties. -- Harriet Martineau
Poverty has its duties as well as its rights. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself. -- Margaret Fuller
Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Three duties of every Christian are giving, praying, and fasting. -- Jentezen Franklin
Rights and duties, sounded more entertaining than duties and rights. -- Toba Beta
People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights. -- Indira Gandhi
Privilege, in any society, is the reward of duties performed. -- Russell Kirk
The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties. -- Mason Cooley
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties. -- Harriet Martineau
My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring. -- Mason Cooley
Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government. -- Margaret Thatcher
The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam. -- John Jortin
Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties -- Alexander MacLaren
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Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life. -- John Flavel
Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Love can transmute all duties into privileges, all responsibilities into joys. -- William George Jordan
The family is the school of duties - founded on love. -- Felix Adler
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy. -- Laurence Sterne
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman. -- John Adams
Every Warrior of the Light has failed in his spiritual duties. -- Paulo Coelho
Americans do not turn away from duties because they are hard. -- George W. Bush
knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. -- Richard Whately
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end. -- Henry de Montherlant
I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties. -- Said Nursi
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty. -- Margaret Deland
From the holy scriptures, heaven-sent lift will be found for heaven-sent duties. -- Russell M. Nelson
Because a warrior of light knows that he has duties and responsibilities... -- Paulo Coelho
Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come. -- Wasif Ali Wasif
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities. -- Eduard Shevardnadze
Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. -- Marquis de Lafayette
When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors. -- Confucius
One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried. -- E. M. Forster
No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. -- James K. Polk
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties. -- Ian Mckellen
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone. -- Tivadar Kosztka Csontvary
When you faithfully follow the three duties of a Christian, God rewards you openly. -- Jentezen Franklin
The duties of each moment are the shadows beneath which hides the divine operation. -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties -- Doug Larson
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties. -- Doug Larson
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. -- Thomas Jefferson
Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I feel incompetent to perform duties...which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. -- Andrew Johnson
Do you feel it's right for the England Captain to avoid his media duties? -- Garth Crooks
The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors. -- Ambrose Bierce
Before I can embrace freedom, I should be aware of what duties I have. -- Vince Lombardi
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace. -- Ramakrishna
Achieving it is not only the chief means of adding to your regular duties. -- Doug Larson
Begin with duties of a man and rights will follow as spring follows winter -- Mahatma Gandhi
I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers. -- Nellie Bly
Some duties exist simply because we are part of a larger family or community. -- Max Anders
We have duties to others, and duties to ourselves, and we cannot shirk either. -- Theodore Roosevelt
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting. -- J. Frank Dobie
sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out. -- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine. -- William Osler
No one has lived a short life who has performed its duties with unblemished character. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you? -- John Howard
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties. -- Doug Larson
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties -- Doug Larson
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. -- Charles Kingsley
Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties. -- Noah Webster
Each state of life has its special duties; by their accomplishments one may find happiness. -- Nicholas of Flue
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. -- H. G. Wells
Violence becomes imperative when an attempt is made to assert rights without any reference to duties. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have no intention of resigning, and confidently expect to resume official duties within three months. -- Frederick William Borden
Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days. -- Henry Miller
The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. -- Georges Bernanos
The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties. -- Kamahl
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. -- Benjamin Disraeli
If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. -- George Eliot
Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed. -- Samuel Richardson
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life -- Sir Walter Scott
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer. -- Francois Fenelon

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