"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."

Duty, Reward, God, Effort

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"Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."

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"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."

Ernestine L. Rose, Polish Feminist

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"I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office."

George Washington, American President

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"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Duty was not untinged by ambition."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

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"By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me, and my reward shall be hereafter."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

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"Violence begins with the fork."

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"Morality is contraband in war."

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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

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"I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher."

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"Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive."

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"Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?"

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"Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point."

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"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."

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"Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion."

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"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

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