"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."

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"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"To care is our endless sense if duty."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"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

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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."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Duty, Life, Demands, Responsibility, Growth

"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Duty, Truth, Wisdom, Spiritual, Power

"Our higher duty is to fear God."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Duty, Fear, God, Respect

"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

"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Duty, Society, Responsibility, Fix, Accountability

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"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."

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"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

"The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness."

"In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty."

"As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities."

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."

"Fear is the parent of cruelty."

"To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible."

"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."

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"Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility."

"To care is our endless sense if duty."

"To avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!"

"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."

"Life has its demands from every one of us who live on planet earth."

"If you try to do that which is not 'our' duty [the Self's duty], it will create interference."

"Our higher duty is to fear God."

"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."

"Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix."