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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."

Robert E. Lee, American Soldier

Duty, Language, Word

"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

Duty, Future, Preparation, Present

"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."

Benjamin Cardozo, American Judge

Duty, Risk

"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."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Duty, Power, Men, Age, Preservation

"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

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

John Burns, English Activist

Duty, Will

"I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them."

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, American Politician

Duty, Facts, Law

"It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply."

Howard Staunton, English Celebrity

Duty, Judgment, Laws, Questions

"I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way...."What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Duty, Truth, Power, Life, Today

"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."

Ann Oakley, British Sociologist

Duty, Nothing

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"Delay in justice is injustice."

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"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."

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"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."

Poetry

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

Self-Love

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

Happiness

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

Self-Love

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

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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."

"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."

"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."

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

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

"I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them."

"It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply."

"I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way...."What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me."

"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."

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"Delay in justice is injustice."

"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend."

"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."

"I strove with none; for none was worth my strife."

"Great men always pay deference to greater."

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

"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."

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

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