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Letter "D" » Duty
«Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.»
Author: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
(Biologist)
| About:
Curiosity,
Duty,
Remarkable,
Sharing
| Keywords:
informed, ingenious, on paper, put down, remarkable, thereof
«Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.»
Author: Etty Hilsum
| About:
Duty
| Keywords:
areas, Just One, moral duty, reclaim, reclaimed, reclaiming, reclaims, reflect, troubled
«The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.»
«When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it?s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.»
«The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Duty
| Keywords:
predominant
«When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.»
«You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.»
«We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Duty
| Keywords:
depth, intelligent, obvious, restatement, sank, sink in, sunk, The First Duty
«True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient»
Author: Seneca
| About:
Duty,
Happiness
| Keywords:
abundantly, amuse, anxious, dependence, duties, sufficient
«We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.»
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