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• I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

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• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

  Humphry Davy

  Life, Family, Smile

  Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy (1839). “The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy”, p.448

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• Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Thee

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• Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Peace, War

  Ronald Reagan's Remarks at the National Conference of the Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO, www.reaganfoundation.org. March 30, 1981.

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• The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

  Moliere

  Men, Comedy, Amusing

  MOLIERE (1965). “TARTUFFE”

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• I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Sorry, Men, Law

  Last words on October 16, 1946. "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II". Book by John Lewis-Stempel, p. 564, 2002.

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• God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Beauty, God, Directors

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• I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Thinking, Overcoming

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• No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

  William E. Gladstone

  Government, People, Easy

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• A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Country, Freedom

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

  Lord Byron

  Literature, Found

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• What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Parent, Important

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• You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Believe, Divorce

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• The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Hippie, Political, Liberty

  "Revolution for the Hell of It". Book by Abbie Hoffman, 1968.

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• Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

  Simone Weil

  Tyrants, Evil, Politics

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.71, Psychology Press

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• In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sacrifice, Everyday Things, Law

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.238, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Lying

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• We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

  John Ruskin

  Two, Design, Firsts

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Stones of Venice”, p.77, John Ruskin

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• The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.

  George Eliot

  Animal, Ideas, Self

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6068, Delphi Classics

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• Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.

  Madame de Stael

  Peace, Truth, War

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Firsts, Artificial

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.120, Wordsworth Editions

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• Thank God I have done my duty.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Thank God, Done

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

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• The first duty of life is to live.

  Burt Lancaster

  Good Life, Firsts, Life Is

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• There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Friendship, Kindness

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