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“The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.”

Men Lying Easy Difficult Path Journey Duty

Book:The works of mencius

Source: The works of mencius

“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.”

Want May Speak Difficult Duty Morality And Love Neighbor Mediocrity Restraint

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“England is a domestic country. Here the home is revered and the hearth sacred. The nation is represented by a family,--the Royal family,--and if that family is educated with a sense of responsibility and a sentiment of public duty, it is difficult to exaggerate the salutary influence it may exercise over a nation.”

Ifs Heart May Country Home Nations Difficult Responsibility Influence Duty Exercise England Sacred Educated Sentiments Royal Royal Family Sense Of Responsibility

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches

“it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.”

Should Littles Dies Difficult Duty Performances

Author:Rebecca West

“Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.”

Humans Difficult Duty Gratitude

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.”

Source: Abraham Lincoln; Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings

“What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.”

Men Way Life War Moments Energy Difficult History Doubt Military Danger Duty Difficulty Anger Adversity Salvation Currents Aids Phases Uncertain Historic Battlefields Ascent

Book:Report to Greco

Source: Report to Greco

“In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.”

Knows Sometimes Hard Difficult Practice Duty Obligation

Book:The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler