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"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
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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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"When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in order that when at last water comes, it may find them ready."
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"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."
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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."
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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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"In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty."
Sacrifice
"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
Death
"The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness."
Trust
"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
Fear
"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side."
Strength
"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."
Experience
"No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty."
Enthusiasm
"The essence of greatness is neglect of the self."
Greatness
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
Dream
"Human improvement is from within outward."
Progress
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