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It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects. -- Jonathan Mayhew
As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition. -- Eugene Kennedy
President Reagan always gave the credit to the American people and American ideals. He treated his job as a valuable temporary loan from the American people, a loan that should be respected and returned with dutiful appreciation. -- William L. Jenkins
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity. -- John Strachan
By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties. -- Wilhelm Frick
Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child. -- Queen Elizabeth II
Physical attributes can make you appealing, but to keep the appeal going, one has to draw from within. You have to be a real person. Your fans and the people you associate with have to be able to see beyond your looks. You have to be a good friend, dutiful son and a good family man. -- Arjun Rampal
I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager. -- Emily Watson
The chief recommendation is modesty, then dutiful conduct toward parents, then affection for kindred. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband. -- Cecil Rhodes
Saudi Arabia has lost one of its dutiful sons, a leader among the most dear of its leaders and men. -- Hosni Mubarak
The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient. -- Brennan Manning
Religion is preserved by wealth; knowledge by diligent practice; a king by conciliatory words; and a home by a dutiful housewife. -- Chanakya
whatever devotion to something else there was in him had been made impure by church taken as a weekly, dutiful thing. -- Kay Boyle
It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack. -- Adrienne Rich
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A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow her. -- Jodi Picoult
If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting. -- Heidi Julavits
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all. -- Martin Luther
How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it? -- Ellen Goodman
The seizure of passionate love can be, in such a context, only illicit, breaking in upon the order of one's dutiful life in virtue as a devastating storm. -- Joseph Campbell
A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone. -- Martin Luther
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature -- Josephine Hart
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life. -- Joseph Butler
To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
We would often rather seem dutiful to others than to succeed in our duties; and often we would rather tell our friends that we have done them good than to do good in actuality. -- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...

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