duties quotes

• The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more. (Georges Bernanos) [state/duties/more]
• Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties. (Charlotte Bronte) [duties]
• We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue. (Marcus Cicero) [search/truth/duties/life]
• The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. ( Confucius) [teach/duties]
• The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population. (Denis Diderot) [divorce/marriage/duties/morals]
• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden. ( Edward VIII) [heavy/responsibility/duties/king]
• We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been. (George Eliot) [find/duties]
• Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [duties/life]
• Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty. (Thomas Jefferson) [duties/obedience]
• If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. (Samuel Johnson) [duties/life]
• 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. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [solitude/books/duties/nature]
• 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. (Thomas Paine) [equality/duties//mercy]
• Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. (Sydney Smith) [duties/life/more]
• Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. (Mark Twain) [forget/forget/duties]
• If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. (Oscar Wilde) [property/duties/interest]
• [She's also strict about laundry duties: If Lourdes leaves dirty clothes on the floor,] we take all of her clothes and put them in a bag, and she has to earn all of her clothes back by being tidy, ... She wears the same outfit every day to school until she learns her lesson. ( Madonna) [duties/take/being/day]
• “What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?” (Ani DiFranco) [duties/speed]

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