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Duty Quotes - Page 6

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 (2009). “Revolution for the Hell of It: The Book That Earned Abbie Hoffman a Five-Year Prison Term at the Chicago Conspiracy Trial”, p.116, Da Capo Press

Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so.

"Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.

"Dame Joan Sutherland obituary" by Alan Blyth, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 1, l. 82

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.

"Horace". Book by Pierre Corneille, act II, scene viii, 1639.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.239

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

"Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

Jefferson Davis (1923). “Jefferson Davis, constitutionalist: his letters, papers, and speeches”

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

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