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If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw. — J. E. H. MacDonald

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well. — Jean Toomer

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion. — John Ruskin

Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second. — Theodore T. Munger

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics. — Theodore Roosevelt

The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair. — Herbert Bayard Swope

To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later. — Brander Matthews

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. — Jules Michelet

The first duty of a government is to give education to the people — Simon Bolivar

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master. — P.T. Forsyth

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. — Henrik Ibsen

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

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen." — Paul Tillich

The first and principal duty of a pastor is to feed the flock by diligent preaching of the word — John Owen

The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict. — W. Somerset Maugham

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea. — David Brin

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third. — George Eliot

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. — Abbie Hoffman

A historian has many duties ... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore — Voltaire

Your first duty to God, to yourself, and to the world is to make yourself as great a personality, in every way, as you possibly can. — Wallace D. Wattles

The first duty of love is to listen. — Paul Tillich

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society
more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent. — George Bernard Shaw

The first duty of any Christian is to know God and the wisdom of His Word to the utmost — Sunday Adelaja

To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us. — Sigmund Freud

The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. — Maurice Maeterlinck

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

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear. — Thomas Carlyle

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia. — Umberto Eco

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this. — C.S. Lewis

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. — Samuel Johnson

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman. — Benjamin Disraeli

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. — Samuel Adams

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul. — Brigham Young

We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. GEORGE ORWELL — J. Budziszewski

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties. — Theresa May

The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious. — Walter Darby Bannard

To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre , this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard. — Ferdinand Foch

Whether you are doing it in the bar, the church, the strip joint, or the Himalayas, the first duty of music is to complement and enhance life. — Carlos Santana

I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the harms that come out of hate. — Gordon Smith

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities. — Winston Churchill

The first duty of a man is to be kind. — Debasish Mridha

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man. — Arthur Symons

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty. — Deborah Harkness

The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines. — Henri Murger

The first duty of a man is to think for himself — Jose Marti

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. — John Ruskin

The first duty of life is to live. — Burt Lancaster

I think the first duty of society is justice. — Alexander Hamilton

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. — Benjamin Franklin

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. — Norman Douglas

You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race. — Madam C. J. Walker

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear is never a good counselor and victory over fear is the first spiritual duty of man. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before. — Dorothy L. Sayers

The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going. — Abbie Hoffman

The first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe ... — Thorstein Veblen

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful. — Code Of Hammurabi 1772 B.C.

The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin. — Martin Luther

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

The first duty of a man is to love himself. When someone loves himself, he is loving the universe. This universe is existing because of you. — Debasish Mridha

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop. — Maria Montessori

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. — George Orwell

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible. — Thomas Huxley

The first duty of their successors was to dispose of their remains — Kurt Vonnegut

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. — Thomas Carlyle

Voting is the first duty of democracy. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself. — Andre Malraux

Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge. — Ford Madox Ford

The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies. — James Anthony Froude

To stimulate life, leaving it free, however, to unfold itself
that is the first duty of the educator. — Maria Montessori

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor. — George Bernard Shaw