"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

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"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

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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

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

George R. R. Martin, American Author

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

John Burns, English Activist

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Howard Staunton, English Celebrity

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"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

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"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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"Justice is the sum of all moral duty."

William Godwin, English Writer

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"Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures."

Adam Clarke, British Theologian

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"Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be."

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"I probably felt more resentment for what I personally was to suffer than for the wrong they were doing to anyone and everyone. But at that time I was determined not to put up with badly behaved people more out of my own interest than because I wanted them to become good people."

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"There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power."

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"People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas,at the long course of the rivers,at the vast compass of the ocean,at the circular motion of the stars,and yet they pass by themselves without wondering."

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"Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."

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"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."

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"Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery."

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"In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me."

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"It's not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds."

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