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"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."
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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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"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."
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"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."
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"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."
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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
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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."
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"I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office."
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"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
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"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."
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"Duty was not untinged by ambition."
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"In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts."
Belief
"An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life."
Life
"To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour."
Experience
"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live."
Belief
"To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence."
Wrong
"If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest."
Money
"We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra."
Common sense
"Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it."
Truth
"Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it."
Belief
"Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race."
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