"One's duty is always and everywhere to be true to one's own experience."

Duty, Truth, Experience, Honesty

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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."

Anonymous, Unknown Unknown

Duty, Stand, Idleness, Action, Obedience

"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."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Duty, Strength, Heart, Merit, Power

"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."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Novelist

Duty, Responsibility, Care, Action, Focus

"I've never cheated on a lover. I'm faithful, always. But the war comes before anyone's feelings. Every time.Wow. Battle before love. Without a doubt, he was the most unromantic male she'd ever met. Even more so than her great-grandfather, who had laughingly burned her great-grandmother to death after she'd given birth to Gwen's grandmother."

Gena Showalter, American Novelist

Duty, War, Love, Conflict

"You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Duty, Merit, Power, Wisdom, Strength

"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

"The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Duty, Responsibility, Life, Spiritual

"Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Duty, Responsibility, Civilization, Weight

"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

"Everyone in this world perform their 'duty'. But when one performs the 'duty' and he also intimidates [scolds] someone in the process, he will reincarnate in the animal life form. If he carries out his duties with understanding, he will return to the human life form. And if he performs them with humbleness, he will reincarnate into the celestial world."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Duty, Truth, Spiritual, Wisdom, Future

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"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."

Fiction, Imagination, Storytelling, Play

"One should show one's scars, not hide them."

Healing, Truth, Pain, Acceptance

"I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me."

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"The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night."

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"Thou shalt not stand idly by."

"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."

"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."

"You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess: not for power or wisdom, at any rate. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."

"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."

"The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls."

"Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool."

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

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"Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind."

"The snow in winter, the flowers in spring. There is no deeper reality."

"If words are the truth, what is living for?"

"Let the mystery carry you breathlessly along."

"The tiniest mite has an inner life of which we can know nothing."

"Nothing succeeds like indifference to success."

"Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend."

"One should show one's scars, not hide them."

"I like dogs that bark a little. The silent ones scare me."

"The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night."