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"NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Duty, Humor, Truth, Power, Wisdom

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Duty, Justice, Responsibility, Death, Empathy

"You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.""If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?""Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life."

Libba Bray, American Author

Duty, Love, Responsibility, Choice

"If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Duty, Guidance, Protection, Responsibility, Support

"But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices."

King Albert II, Belgian Royalty

Duty, May, Will

"Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Duty, Honor, Life, Values, Protection

"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."

James Harvey Robinson, American Historian

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"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."

William Kingdon Clifford, English Mathematician

Duty, Mind, Obscurity, Questioning

"Our higher duty is to fear God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Duty, Fear, God, Respect

"But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it created for me, I was bound to help that Government to the extent of my ability when it was engaged in a war, unless I non-co-operated with the Government and renounced to the utmost of my capacity the privileges it offered me."

Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Leader

Duty, Government, Responsibility, Force

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"NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY."

"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."

"If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed."

"But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices."

"Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe."

"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."

"No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."

"Our higher duty is to fear God."

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"We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

"We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love."

"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good."

"Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!"

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."

"The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander."

"A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice."

"There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer."

"The Siren waits thee, singing song for song."