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«Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort»
«No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.»
«Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our callings that we may sleep in Thy peace and wake in Thy glory»
Author: John Donne | About: God | Keywords: duties, Duties of, sleep in
«One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine»
«Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of Adam»
Author: William Beveridge (Economist, Social Reformer) | About: Duty, Sin | Keywords: Adam, duties
«It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.»
«It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.»
«One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.»
«Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.»
«I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.»

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