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"The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies."
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"The most difficult challenge an honest man will ever face is having to choose between duty and love.One creates a man of honorable character-a life worth dying for.The other creates a vulnerable soul that madly yearns for either death or immortality."
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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die."
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"It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish."
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"It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail."
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"NEITHER RAIN NOR SNOW NOR GLOM OF NIT CAN STAY THESE MESENGERS ABOT THEIR DUTY."
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"We have one great assignment: to fully accomplish what we have been divinely charged by God to the very limit of our sincere strength, with due fear and courage, in wit and in truth, and within the scope of our Assigner: Jehovah!"
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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."
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"I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office."
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"Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else."
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"To care is our endless sense if duty."
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"Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve."
Doubt

"Human improvement is from within outward."
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"In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty."
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"Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all."
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"Fear is the parent of cruelty."
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"The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue."
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"Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side."
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"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."
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"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
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"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."
Experience
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