He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.
It's my duty as a guardian to protect Cross Academy, day and night.
If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the. . . present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!
The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.
The great duties of life are written with a sunbeam.
Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.
Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.
Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom-physical, mental, and spiritual-and help others to do so.
God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.
When you read, you think, and when you smoke, you think. It's a pleasurable thing, and not a duty.
You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling. . . it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart.
Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.
But clearly the fact that we've gone from zero Iraqi security forces on duty in May to up to 200,000 today is an enormous accomplishment, but it's not enough.
If my duty does involve heralding His law in every arena, then the Church in America is failing radically today.
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased
Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.