"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."

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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."

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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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"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

Duty, Hope, Service, Action

"England expects that every man will do his duty."

Horatio Nelson, British Soldier

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"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."

William Godwin, English Writer

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"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."

Ellen Key, Swedish Writer

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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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"England expects that every man will do his duty."

"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."

"Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity."

Explore more quotes by Samuel Butler

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

"The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation."

"Loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game True as a dial to the sun Although it be not shined upon."

"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right."

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