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• Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it.

  Horace Bushnell

  Christian, Believe, Men

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”, p.380

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• The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Justice, Charity

  John Tillotson (1680). “Sermons Preach'd Upon Several Occasions: By John Tillotson, D.D. Dean of Canterbury, Preacher to the Honourable Society of Lincolns-Inn, and One of His Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary. The First Volume”, p.174

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• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Diversity, Patriotism

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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• Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, Faith, Freedom

  Address at Cooper Institute, New York, N.Y., 27 Feb. 1860

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• It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Nature, Follow Your Heart

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• We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Intelligence

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Money, Accountability, Debt

  Joseph Fort Newton (1937). “Living Every Day: A Book of Faith, Philosophy, and Fun,”

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• Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Men, Office, Grace

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 199, 1895.

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• The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

  Thomas Paine

  Simple, Men, Two

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

  Owen Feltham

  Charity, Courtesy, Alms

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• We have an intuitive sense of our duty.

  Jonathan Swift

  Intuitive

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• Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

  Joseph Joubert

  Men, Slave, Force

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.90

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• Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Men

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• Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.

  Horace Bushnell

  Christian, Men, Law

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”

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• If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Noble, Spirit, Servant

  Frederick William Robertson (1863). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.253, Boston : Fields, Osgood

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• A deliberate rejection of duty prescribed by already recognized truth cannot but destroy, or at least impair most seriously the clearness of our mental vision.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Rejection, Vision, Clearness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 201. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Humble, Men, Names

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 204), 1895.

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• Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.

  Tryon Edwards

  Honor, Way, Providence

  Tryon Edwards (1853). “The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors”, p.208

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• I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

  Charles Kingsley

  Men, Soul, Favors

  Charles Kingsley (1889). “Works”

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• The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, This World, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.197

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• Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Extremes

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.457, Penguin

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• The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Special, Helping

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Ethics of the Dust”, p.100, John Ruskin

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• Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

  Immanuel Kant

  Rights, Giving, Secret

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• The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

  William Hazlitt

  Lasts, Life Is, Pleasure

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.2098, Delphi Classics

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• Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.

  Hosea Ballou

  Love Is, Faithful, Ignorant

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