"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
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"Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty."
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"There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious."
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"Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it."
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"Beneficence is a duty."
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"It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires."
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"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."
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"The educator has the duty of not being neutral."
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"You don't have a right to vote, you've got a duty of vote."
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"When there are duties to perform [true] servants and sons serve their labors."
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"When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it."
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"In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
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"Silence is the eternal duty of man."
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"What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others."
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"We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well."
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"To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair."
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"Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace."
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"Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law."
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"Duty is what one expects from others."
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"If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation."
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