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When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility, even if the course involves pain and renunciation. It is like obedience to some external authority; any clear way, though it lead to death, is mentally preferable to the tangle of uncertainty. (Acton Lord)
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven. (Acton Lord)
Duty cannot exist without faith. (Acton Lord)
Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. (Acton Lord)
Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. (Acton Lord)
I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. (Acton Lord)
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. (Acton Lord)
Love can do much, but duty more. (Acton Lord)
But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all. (Acton Lord)
The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. (Acton Lord)
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. (Acton Lord)
It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots. (Acton Lord)
Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together. (Acton Lord)
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be. (Acton Lord)
Consult duty not events. (Acton Lord)
Duty is the sublimest word in the language. You can never do more than your duty. You should never wish to do less. (Acton Lord)
The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty. (Acton Lord)
What is possible is our highest duty. (Acton Lord)
Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. (Acton Lord)
Rank imposes obligation. (Acton Lord)
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last. (Acton Lord)
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