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"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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"Nobody is masterless, even ronin enslaved by his sword."
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"There should ne'er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family."
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"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."
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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."
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"People do not know what good deeds are. It is udaya karma,unfolding effects of past karma; that makes them do the deeds. The prakruti, the relative self, forces them to do them. What is your own thing [effort] in that? Doing good deeds; that too is mandatory (farajiyat)!"
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"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
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"The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls."
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"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair."
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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."
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"You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.""If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?""Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life."
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"The public do not know enough to be experts yet know enough to decide between them."
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"I keep my books at the British Museum and at Mudies."
Knowledge

"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."
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"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."
Virtue

"In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved."
Marriage

"Our latest moment is always our supreme moment. Five minutes delay in dinner now is more important than a great sorrow ten years gone."
Life

"The foundations which we would dig about and find are within us like the Kingdom of Heaven rather than without."
Spiritual

"I can generally bear the separation but I don't like the leave-taking."
Emotion

"Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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