"A councillor ought not to sleep the whole night through - a man to whom the populace is entrusted and who has many responsibilities."

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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."

Robert E. Lee, American Soldier

Duty, Language, Word

"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

Duty, Future, Preparation, Present

"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."

Benjamin Cardozo, American Judge

Duty, Risk

"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

Duty, Power, Men, Age, Preservation

"Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Duty, Honor, Life, Values, Protection

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

John Burns, English Activist

Duty, Will

"It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply."

Howard Staunton, English Celebrity

Duty, Judgment, Laws, Questions

"I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way...."What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Duty, Truth, Power, Life, Today

"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."

Ann Oakley, British Sociologist

Duty, Nothing

"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."

James Harvey Robinson, American Historian

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"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."

Journey

"Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those."

Philosophy

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

Heart

"Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war."

Warfare

"How vain, without the merit, is the name."

Merit

"But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well-for your own son's death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels-I've lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men."

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"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less."

"The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done."

"The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed."

"Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe."

"My duty is clear and at all costs will be done."

"It is the duty of the Umpire to determine all questions submitted to him according to these laws, when they apply, and according to his best judgment when they do not apply."

"I (Percy) set Nico on guard duty with Beckendorf and the Stoll brothers, figuring he'd be safely out of the way...."What's happening?" Nico demanded, trying to climb up next to me."

"Families are nothing other than the idolatry of duty."

"Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other."

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"Labor conquers all things."

"But sing no more this bitter tale that wears my heart away."

"A decent boldness ever meets with friends."

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."

"And when long years and seasons wheeling brought around that point of time ordained for him to make his passage homeward, trials and dangers, even so, attended him even in Ithaca, near those he loved."

"Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"Men grow tired of sleep love singing and dancing sooner than of war."

"How vain, without the merit, is the name."

"But now, as it is, sorrows, unending sorrows must surge within your heart as well-for your own son's death. Never again will you embrace him stiding home. My spirit rebels-I've lost the will to live, to take my stand in the world of men."