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“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Age Able Artist Born Duty Demand Unique Instinct Paint What You Want Being An Artist

Author:David Luiz

“Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.”

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.”

“The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God as when we admit that we are poor, corrupt and idiotic worms; that we never should have been born; that we ought to be damned without the least delay.... The old creed is still taught. They still insist that God is infinitely wise, powerful and good, and that all men are totally depraved. They insist that the best man god ever made, deserved to be damned the moment he was finished.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.”

Ifs Reason Hands Spirit Felt Born Community Society Position Duty Succeed Democratic Excuse Chiefs Pockets No Excuses

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Of all my prosecutorsnot one is my peer, but each and all are my political sovereigns; and had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, then I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign born, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer.”

“Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.”

Men May Born Money Education Wise Duty University Born Free

Author:Adlai Stevenson I

“To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!”

Humans Born Mankind Duty Claims Guilt Track Dues Homage Forfeit Deviation

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Most criminals are not born; they are made.... What the State really punishes in a criminal is often its own neglect, its own failure to do its duty to the citizen.”

Made States Born Duty Citizens Criminals Neglect

Author:William Randolph Hearst

“A general in time of war is constantly bombarded by reports both true and false; by errors arising from fear or negligence or hastiness; by disobedience born of right or wrong interpretations, of ill will; of a proper or mistaken sense of duty; of laziness; or of exhaustion; and by accident that nobody could have foreseen. In short, he is exposed to countless impressions, most of them disturbing, few of them encouraging. ... If a man were to yield to these pressures, he would never complete an operation.”

Source: On War

“I owe no duty to the forum, the election ground or the senate; I am ... no barking pleader, no judge, no soldier, no king; I have withdrawn from the populace. My only business is with myself. I have no care save not to care. The better life you would more enjoy in seclusion than in publicity. But you will decry me as indolent. ... None is born for another, being destined to die for himself.”

Care Dies Enjoy Born Judging Duty Kings Election Soldier Senate Destined Better Life Publicity Forums Seclusion

Author:Tertullian

“Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.”

Doe Born Blood Duty Blessed Sacred Innocent Innocence Yield

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.”

Years Firsts Wells Children States Literature Born Duty Educated Feds Discretion

Author:John Ruskin

“...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.”

Self Country Born Ability Duty Pride Proud Discipline Soldier Privilege Self Confidence Obligation Superiors Self Respect Units Comrade Good Soldiers

Author:George S. Patton