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"The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."

"Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."

"Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving."

"Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government."
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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."

"I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office."

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"

"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."

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

"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."
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