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"The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years."
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"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."
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"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."
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"She had her reward! - that reward of which no enemie could deprive her, which no slanders could make less precious - the eternal reward of knowing that she had done her duty."
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"I shall never ask never refuse nor ever resign an office."
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"Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical."
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"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."
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"Duty was not untinged by ambition."
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"By his [God's] help I will arise and address myself diligently to my appointed duty. If happiness in this world is not for me, I will endeavor to promote the welfare of those around me, and my reward shall be hereafter."
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"I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
Military
"A great imperative imparts a wonderful impulse to the spirit."
Inspirational
"Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings."
History
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
Humor
"Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought."
Communication
"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."
Society
"He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience."
Leadership
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."
Duty
"The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman."
Leadership
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
Contentment
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