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"Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates."
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"To care is our endless sense if duty."
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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."
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"Why was I chosen?''Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
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"Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates."
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"When you've finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care."
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"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
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"You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business.They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies."
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"I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write."
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"We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail."
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"The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
Character
"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
Relationship
"More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
Wisdom
"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."
Behavior
"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
Man
"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
Love
"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
Love
"You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
History
"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
Experience
"Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
Life
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