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"Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain." »Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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"The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." »Alexis Carrel
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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority." »Lord Acton
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"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more. You should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less." »Robert E. Lee
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"Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer." »Thomas Carlyle
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"Duty without love is deplorable.
Duty with love is desirable.
Love without duty is Divine." »Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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"And now, like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career, and just fade away...an old soldier who tried to do his duty, as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye." »Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell address, quoted on "We Interrupt This Broadcast" CD-ROM
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"Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Everyone thinks his own burden heavy." »French Proverb
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"To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. ... For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination." »Immanuel Kant, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE METAPHYSICS OF ETHICS
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"If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial." »Charles De Gaulle
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"Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice only the willingness to make it when necessary." »Frederick Sherwood Dunn
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"The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty." »Lao Tzu
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"Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If birds talked, they couldn't fly." »Christian Williams
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"Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"What makes a man heavy is the gravity of virtue. Without it, man will be so light that he will be drifted in the winds of immorality." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In the hearts and minds of the people, the grapes of wrath were growing heavy for the vintage." »John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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"Leave each one his touch of folly it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry." »John Lancaster Spalding
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"Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat." »Julie Burchill
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"So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination." »John Haldane
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"When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you." »Alfred Victor Vigny
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"How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, et cetera it is the ego they cannot forgo." »Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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"Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?" »Alfred A. Montapert
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