"Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others."

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"The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart."

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"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else."

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"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

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"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

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"He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man."

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"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."

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"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."

William Ames, English Philosopher

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"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

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"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."

Robert Baden-Powell, English Soldier

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"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

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Nellie Bly, American Journalist

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"Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions."

Hjalmar Branting, Swedish Statesman

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Eric Brown, British Writer

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"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

John Burns, English Activist

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"The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart."

"Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else."

"Friends are the siblings God never gave us."

"Friendship is one mind in two bodies."

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"Truth uttered before its time is always dangerous."

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"The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind."

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."

"For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor."

"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."

"We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it."

"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."

"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow."

"Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions."

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"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."