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"If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools."

Janet Morris

War, Faith, Danger, Duty, Destiny
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"The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both."

Janet Morris

Courage, Faith, Duty, Trust
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"Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what’s right and wrong these days."

Janet Morris

Truth, Courage, Commitment, Loyalty, Pride, Honour, Duty, Heroism
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A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Bertrand Russell

Duty
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Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Thomas à Kempis

Duty
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But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.

Oliver Goldsmith

Duty
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Consult duty not events.

Walter Savage Landor

Duty
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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.

Mark Twain

Duty
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Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Duty
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Thomas Carlyle

Duty
11

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

Pierre Corneille

Duty
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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

Duty
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Duty cannot exist without faith.

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield

Duty
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Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

Robert E. Lee

Duty
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Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Ambrose Bierce

Duty
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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

Duty
17

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Duty
18

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

Duty
19

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Duty
20

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

Edward Gibbon

Duty
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It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Thomas Szasz

Duty
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It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.

Victor Hugo

Duty
23

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Theodore Parker

Duty
24

Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Theodore Parker

Duty
25

Love can do much, but duty more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Duty
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Never step over one duty to perform another.

Duty
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Augustine of Hippo

Duty
28

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Duty
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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Duty
30

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

George Meredith

Duty
31

Rank imposes obligation.

Duty
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The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

Oscar Wilde

Duty
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The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.

Theodore Roosevelt

Duty
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The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

Duty
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The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

George Eliot

Duty
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Duty
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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

Abraham Lincoln

Duty
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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Duty
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw

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When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty.

Charles Cooley

Duty
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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Joseph Joubert

Duty
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“Niko, you’re halfway to where you need to go. It’s the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?”

Janet Morris

Commitment, Loyalty, Honour, Duty, Heroism
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“We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god…is not helping him today.”

Janet Morris

Immortality, Responsibility, Death, Duty, Divine Intervention

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"If the gods sent you to fight here, then the gods are fools."

"The gods want to bring a better day, and you are their messengers. Trust not in all you see. Trust only in your hearts. And in us, who love you both."

"Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what’s right and wrong these days."

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.

Consult duty not events.

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.

Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

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.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less.

Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

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.

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.

I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Never step over one duty to perform another.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

Rank imposes obligation.

The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.

The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.

The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.

The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

“Niko, you’re halfway to where you need to go. It’s the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?”

“We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god…is not helping him today.”