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Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.
— Ellen Key
If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.
— Mahatma Gandhi
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
— Edward Abbey
U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.
— John Shimkus
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
— Jules Michelet
A garden is a public service and having one a public duty. It is a man's contribution to the community.
— Richardson Wright
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
— Charlie Gonzalez
It is not the novelist's job to preach; it is his duty to show.
— Anthony Burgess
It is not the world's duty to make your day better.
— John Cheese
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided ... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
— Ulysses S. Grant
It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.
— Billy Childish
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
That is my job, right? To comfort him. To keep the portrait of what he left behind intact. Isn't that a woman's duty during wartime?
— Suzanne Hayes
It's my duty to enlighten people.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
A leader's first duty is to look after his or her people, especially those who are sick, hungry, or thirsty.
— Michael Monroe
It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.
— Orison Swett Marden
I have learned that to do one's next duty is to take a step toward all that is worth possessing.
— J.G. Holland
I'd hate to imply that it's your civic duty to see The House I Live In, but guess what it is.
— Ty Burr
the Supreme Alpha Male it's my duty to protect them, so I created this island
— Curvy Love Publishing
It's the doctors duty to activate and reactivate the body's own healing mechanism.
— Charlotte Gerson
When I'm in heavy-duty writing mode, there's something great about reading a series. Soothing, but not distracting too much.
— Lauren Willig
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
— Rebecca West
I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
— John D. Rockefeller
To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God.
— Ramana Maharshi
Smiling is not a duty, but a freedom. It's up to you now; you are liberated from the expectations and conformities of youth.
— Justine Picardie
Duty is ours and events are God's.
— Angelina Grimke
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright
— Blaise Pascal
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
— Mervyn Peake
One's duty is to feel what is great, cherish the beautiful, and to not accept the conventions of society with the ignominy that it imposes upon us.
— Gustave Flaubert
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
— Randall Terry
I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
— Samuel Butler
Courage meant overcoming fear and doing one's duty in the presence of danger, not being unafraid.
— Eugene B. Sledge
As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one's language from corruption.
— W. H. Auden
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
— Kenneth Tynan
Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there.
— Giovanni Giocondo
The best security for people's doing their duty is that they should not know anything else to do.
— Walter Bagehot
I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.
— Kelsey Grammer
If you can take advantage of a situation in some way, it's your duty as an American to do it.
— John Swartzwelder
Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends.
Discerning the two is a life's work. — David Petersen
It's every American's duty to support his government but not necessarily in the style to which it has become accustomed.
— Thomas C. Mann
Must's a schoolroom in the month of may
— E. E. Cummings
There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
It's the duty of art to ask questions, not to provide answers. And if you want a clearer answer, I'll have to pass.
— Michael Haneke
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
— P. J. O'Rourke
One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do ...
— Margaret Oliphant
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.
— Marlon Brando
Duty is the essence of manhood.
— George S. Patton
Even a prison the size of a universe is still a prison. And it is every prisoner's duty to escape.
— John C. Wright
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
— Dick Gregory
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
— Henry A. Kissinger
A soldier's first duty is to obey, otherwise you might as well do away with soldiering.
— Albert Kesselring
Once imbued with the idea of a mission, a great nation easily assumes that it has the means as well as the duty to do God's work.
— J. William Fulbright
Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
It is the government's fundamental duty to ensure the security of every individual citizen.
— Charles Kennedy
It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
— Vincent Van Gogh
There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.
— Paul Watson
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.
— Ralph Barton Perry
It is not for us to calculate our victory or fear our defeat, but to do our duty and leave the rest in God's hands.
— Alan Keyes
Hasting - There are times when it is one's duty to assert oneself.
— Agatha Christie
Part of a soldier's duty is to fill gaps ... one must be willing to be nothing, as something.
— Amy Carmichael
I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animal's duty to be on my plate at supper time.
— Jeremy Clarkson
All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.
— Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Officers must be made to care for their men. That is the sole duty of all officers.
— George S. Patton
A woman's duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyes ... to speak and act in defiance of convention.
— Margaret Sanger
A Christian's duty, Lewis believed, is not simply to tolerate "X" but to make life with "X" an occasion to work on one's own character flaws.
— Philip Zaleski
Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty.
— Fulton J. Sheen
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
— Samuel Smiles
If you have the ability, give as if it's life's duty.
— Debasish Mridha
It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.
— Stuart Duncan
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.
— Immanuel Kant
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
— Eric S. Raymond
Love is the outlaw's duty.
— Jayne Anne Phillips
