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Duty Quotes - Page 11

It is our first duty to serve society.

It is our first duty to serve society.

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 10 (February 1766)

Duty grows everywhere--like children, like grass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.94, Harvard University Press

Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment.

Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “Offshore: A Novel”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer.

"Dispatches from the front". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2003.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Oscar Wilde (2015). “Oscar Wilde The Dover Reader”, p.447, Courier Dover Publications

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.183

Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.

"Europe sets the rules on booze" by Nigel Farage, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2009.

Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence.

Mathilde Blind (2014). “George Eliot”, p.11, The Floating Press

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

"Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (22), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.49, Rajpal & Sons

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

"Ethan of Athos". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1986.

The sense of duty pursues us ever.

Joseph Cook (1881). “The Boston Monday Lectures”