Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say This was their finest hour.
Never regard study as a duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on poor heart unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light to thee.
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that without any other motive of vanity or self-interest they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind however proper however amiable it may be has nevertheless no true moral worth but is on a level with other inclinations…. For the maxim lacks the moral import namely that such actions be done from duty not from inclination.
O good old man how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world When service sweat for duty not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times Where none will sweat but for promotion And having that do choke their service up Even with the having….
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say This was their finest hour.
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred and we must come back and settle the account at last.
DUTY n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit along the line of desire.
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom and you will see the effect when the weaving of a lifetime is unraveled.
Never regard study as a duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can.
When Im not thankd at all Im thankd enough; Ive done my duty and Ive done no more.
Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.
Let no guilty man escape if it can he avoided…. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I slept and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on poor heart unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light to thee.
Do your duty and leave the rest to Providence.
Only aim to do your duty and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that without any other motive of vanity or self-interest they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind however proper however amiable it may be has nevertheless no true moral worth but is on a level with other inclinations…. For the maxim lacks the moral import namely that such actions be done from duty not from inclination.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly caught in the web of duty.
When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform always do the most disagreeable first.
To be a man is precisely to be responsible.
O good old man how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world When service sweat for duty not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times Where none will sweat but for promotion And having that do choke their service up Even with the having….
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
The first duty of love is to listen.
Make it a point to 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.
Laugh when you can; cry when you must.