Mark Twain Quotes About Duty

• If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Voting, Tickets

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910”

• A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry his Christian code to the polls and vote them... If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease... it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Country, Would Be

• I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

  Mark Twain

  Hatred, House, Enthusiasm

• Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

  Mark Twain

  Motivational, Positive, Pain

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.94, Courier Corporation

• Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

  Mark Twain

  Atheism, Slave, Reason

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.158, Univ of California Press

• Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

  Mark Twain

  Advice, Today, Tomorrow

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.94, Courier Corporation

• When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Simple, Honor

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.152, Xist Publishing

• A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Party, Men

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.238, 1st World Publishing

• 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

  Men, Accountability, Sake

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.16, 谷月社

• My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.

  Mark Twain

  Brother, Book, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.541, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

  Mark Twain

  Worry, Duty

  Mark Twain, Richard P. Wasowski (2004). “CliffsComplete Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

  Mark Twain

  Duty, Preacher, Company

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.303, Univ of California Press

• The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Clothes, Political

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.101, Createspace Independent Pub

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