#duty

We found what we could at that time - the truth. If somebody else can find something else which we didn't find, that, of course, is a duty on their part, as is the truth. It will be the truth. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#course #duty #else #find #found

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#country #disgrace #done #duty #elected

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#church #desire #did #duty #farther

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#attention #delightful #duty #easy #energy

Duty cannot exist without faith. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#duty #exist #faith #without

It is the duty of man to raise up man. ↗

— Jose Marti

#man #raise #up

Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#duty #find #follow #happiness #own

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. ↗

— George Eliot

#conscientious #course #duty #most #painful

So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#ethics #morality #progress #society #sorrow

I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#africa #because #been #believed #circumstances