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"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers."
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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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"Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not."
Yourself

"Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest."
Sacrifice

"Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority."
Life

"In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared."
Woman

"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
Talent

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven."
Music

"In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties."
Health

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."
Gratitude

"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."
Sympathy

"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."
Being
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