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Men equally honest, equally devoted to their fatherland, are momentarily separated by different conceptions of their duty.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, Dirty Hands
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Caesar and Cleopatra
Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.
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, Life Thoughts
- Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
- Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
- I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty;
- I woke, and found that life was Duty.
ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER, Life a Duty
- Stern daughter of the voice of God!
- O Duty! if that name thou love
- Who art a light to guide, a rod
- To check the erring and reprove.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, Ode to Duty
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
O hard, when love and duty clash!
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, The Princess
- For duty, duty must be done;
- The rule applies to everyone.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque
Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, letter to the President of Congress, Feb. 9, 1776
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