“My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.” YearsBookStatesYoungActingAirPositionBrotherDutyOfficeHundredDignityDollarsAbsenceIgnorantTitlesMy BrotherTerritoryGovernorsSecretaryMajestySalaryGrandeurEighteenImposingEnviedNevadaTreasurer Book:10 Books in 1 Source: 10 Books in 1
“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.” ThinkingWorldLittlesLife IsOrderFallCultureReadingChristChurchActingSonDutyHigherCreaturesEssentialsDown AndClubsImprovementLiftsBordersMutualMistakenMajestyFalling DownFreemanChurch Of ChristChaucerSpenser Author:Edward Everett Hale
“To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.” MenTryingPersonsWholeGovernmentActingInformationDutyUnionsMotiveExecutivesResortsRight PlaceBest PersonBest Of MeRight Man Author:Thomas Jefferson
“We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.” PeopleStatesChurchSinResultsActingEnemyVirtueDutyBritishContraryCommandGentlemanCollectionsElderlyChurch And StateEnglishmenOmnipotentWestminster Author:Bertrand Russell
“What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it.” SelfLawActingMoralDutyMoralityCeaseRationalCommandIncentivesConstraintsMoral Law Author:Allen W. Wood
“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.” InspirationalProblemMotivationalLife IsActorsActingDutySignificanceDedicationBest ActingActors And ActingSignificance Of Life Author:Marlon Brando