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Letter "D" » duties
«In the fulfillment of your duties, let your intentions be so pure that you reject from your actions any other motive than the glory of God and the salvation of souls»
«Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.»
«Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.»
«A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.»
Author: Marlene Dietrich
(Actress)
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Competence,
Family
| Keywords:
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«Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
duties, forgetting, inconvenient, rigid, stern
«If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
duties, get rid of, interest, make it, pleasures, property, rich, rid, rid of, unbearable
«Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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«Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
architecture, Bad art, duties, embitter, embittered, embitters, fetter, fettered, in fetters, jealous, mistress, painting, provider, providers, season
«Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Discretion
| Keywords:
discretion, duties, Duties of
«Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| Keywords:
anguish, anguishes, Blood and, citizenship, duties, fit to, Meet The, perils, responsibilities, sweat, The Nation, triumphed
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