DUTY

Related Subjects: Deference, Loyalty, Obligation, Patriotism, Responsibility, Taxes, Trust

1. Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.—ADDISON, Cato
   

2. In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.—ST. AUGUSTINE
   

3. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.—H. W. BEECHER, Life Thoughts
   

4. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.—Bible, Ecclesiastes 12:13
   

5. To do my duty in that state oflife unto which it shall please God to call me.—Book of Common Prayer
   

6. Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.—CORNEILLE, Horace
   

7. The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.—GEORGE ELIOT, Daniel Deronda

8. So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
   So near is God to man.
   When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
   The youth replies, I can.—EMERSON, Voluntaries
   

9. When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
   I've done my duty, and I've done no more.—FIELDING, Tom Thumb
   

10. In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.—FROUDE,
    Short Studies on Great Subjects
    

11. The gratifying feeling that our duty has been done.—W. S. GILBERT, The Gondoliers
    

12. But what is your duty? What the day demands.—GOETHE, Spruche in Prosa
    

13. Straight is the line of duty;
    Curved is the line of beauty;
    Follow the straight line, thou shalt see
    The curved line ever follow thee.—WILLIAM MACCALL, Duty
    

14. Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.—MAZZINI
    

15. Knowledge is the hill which few may wish to climb;
    Duty is the path that all may tread.—LEWIS MORRIS, Epic of Hades
    

16. England expects every man to do his duty.—HORATIO NELSON
    

17. It is the prime duty of a woman of this terrestrial world to look well. Neatness is the asepsis of clothes.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir William Osler
    

18. O, good old man; how well in thee appears
    The constant service of the antique world,
    When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
    Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
    Where none will sweat but for promotion.—SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It
    

19. I do perceive here a divided duty.—SHAKESPEARE, Othello
    

20. I thought the remnant of mine age
    Should have been cherish'd by her child-like duty.—SHAKESPEARE, Two Gentlemen of Verona
    

21. There is no duty we underrate so much as the duty of being happy.—STEVENSON, Virginibus Puerisque
    

22. Not snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.—U. S. Postal Service: Motto
    

23. A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.—DANIEL WEBSTER

24. Simple duty hath no place for fear.—WHITTIER, Tent on the Beach

25. Stern Daughter of the Voice of God.—WORDSWORTH, Ode to Duty