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Duty

«He who defines duty for himself is his own master.»
Author: Dick Cheatham | About: Duty, Independence
«It is a right and duty of the wise ones to purify the strong by teaching them their duties and to strengthen the weak by teaching them their rights.»
«I think the first duty of society is justice»
«It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.»
Author: Harold Macmillan | About: Duty | Keywords: flap, flapped, flapping, flaps
«I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.»
«Happiness is the natural flower of duty.»
Author: Phillip Brooks | About: Duty, Happiness
«It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children»
Author: African Proverb | About: Children, Duty | Keywords: elders, wait on
«It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita | About: Duty, Sin
«It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants»
Author: Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, Writer) | About: Duty, Life | Keywords: humankind, plants
«I think a man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life»

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