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"A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them."
Crime
"The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice."
Sacrifice
"The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness."
People
"The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army."
Army
"A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation."
Government
"Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it."
History
"I have done what I felt to be my duty."
Duty
"I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream."
Intelligence
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"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."
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Personal Development
"To care is our endless sense if duty."
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Personal Development
"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"
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Personal Development
"And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
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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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Personal Development
"Our higher duty is to fear God."
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Personal Development
"You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
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Personal Development
"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."
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Personal Development
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