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Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
George Meredith
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
John Fowles
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.
Ellen Stugis Hooper
Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas Jefferson
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
Bertrand Russell
Whensoever hostile aggressions...require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.
Rank imposes obligation.
Anon.
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Joseph Joubert
Do the Duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a Duty! Thy second Duty will already have become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
The Quakers sent me books, from which I learnt how they had, years ago, established beyond doubt the duty for a Christian of fulfilling the command of non-resistance to evil by force, and had exposed the error of the Church's teaching in allowing war and capital punishment.
Leo Tolstoy
Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
Jane Austen
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is not a virtue, but a kind of deceitful similitude, to fulfill our duty for the purpose of its reward.
It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
Mark Twain
If I do my full duty, the rest will take care of itself.
General George Patton
I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.
Virginia Woolf
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Duty is ours; consequences our God's.
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jack
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock
