This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.
The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
Education is a life; that life is sustained on ideas; ideas are of spiritual origin, and that we get them chiefly as we convey them to one another. The duty of parents is to sustain a child's inner life with ideas as they sustain his body with food.
It is not our responsibility to make it acceptable; it is our duty to make it available.
For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.
Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.
I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.
To promote knowledge is thus an inescapable duty imposed on every one of the friends of God.
I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.
It is necessary to be strong, in order to become great: that is our duty. Life is a struggle, which we cannot avoid. We must triumph!
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.
We are following Allah's word. We believe that humanity's only duty is to honor Allah and his prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. We are implementing what is written in the Koran. If we manage to do so, then of course it will be a success.
perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
Beneficence is a duty.
It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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.
In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to give them faith as a foundation and hope that when they bemuse older teens and young adults they will choose the same thing for themselves.
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.