"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."

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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."

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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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"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."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Duty, Life, Demands, Responsibility, Growth

"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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"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Duty, Justice, May

"Duty was not untinged by ambition."

Barbara Tuchman, American Historian

Duty, Ambition, Truth, Wisdom

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