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“Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.”

Knows World Should Break Destiny This World Duty Universal Mere Obedience Zero Smallest Fractions

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“Courage that grows from constitution very often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it, and when it is only a kind of instinct in the Soul breaks out on all occasions without judgment or discretion. That courage which proceeds from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.”

Men Kind Made Soul Reason Grows Break Duty Judgment Constitution Instinct Occasions Uniforms Discretion Break Out Forsake Offending All Occasions

Book:The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq

“To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.”

Men Humans Race Cities Break Atheism Duty Members Universal Positive Atheism Human Race

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“High hearts are never long without hearing some new call, some distant clarion of God, even in their dreams; and soon they are observed to break up the camp of ease, and start on some fresh march of faithful service.”

Heart Long Dream Break Duty Hearing Ease Faithful March Camps Faithful Service

Book:Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

“Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in useless talk and go to bed late, you are likely to lose your valuables and your reputation as well. Save the firing and the light that will be wasted by staying up late and get up at four in the morning. Have a cold bath and say your prayers, and after you have dressed, give your orders for the day to your wife and children and retainers and so be ready to go on duty before 6 [a.m.]”

Ifs Giving Wells Children Light Order Loses Prayer Break Morning Four Wife Advice Ready Duty Goes On Cold Bed Late Reputation Get Up Evening Useless Staying Thieves Baths Our Prayers Firing Retainers

Author:Hojo Soun

“The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation. Most often this struggle is unconscious and short-lived. A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death.”

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.”

Littles Made Whole Girl House Forget Rooms Break Duty Broken Forgotten Spills Maidens

Book:The Mists of Avalon

Source: The Mists of Avalon

“When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.”

Should Night Church Cities Break Hell Fire Stupid Duty Awake Sinner Careless Sinking Break Out Great Cities Fireman Unconcerned

Book:Lectures on Revivals of Religion

Source: Lectures on Revivals of Religion

“I spent several years in a North Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States? The vice president has two duties. One is to break a tie in case of a tie vote in the United States Senate... The other is to inquire daily as to the health of the president. Neither one of those are very challenging as compared to being able to live for a good part of the time in the state of Arizona.”

Thinking Want Years Two States President Challenges Dark United Break Cases United States Duty Vote Prison Vices Ties Feds Camps Senate Scrap Vice President Arizona Vietnamese

Author:John McCain

“I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.”

Ifs Looks Art School Difficult Break Painting Duty Draws Female Exciting Western Males Upset Friday Taboo Tuesday Art School

Author:Peter Greenaway

“A woman cannot live in the light of intellect. Society forbids it. Those conventional frivolities, which are called her 'duties', forbid it. Her 'domestic duties', high-sounding words, which, for the most part, are but bad habits (which she has not the courage to enfranchise herself from, the strength to break through), forbid it.”

Light Break Duty Habit Intellect Conventional Bad Habits Break Through Frivolity

Book:Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

Source: Cassandra: And Other Selections from Suggestions for Thought

“Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.”

Break Duty Heavy Legs Tricks Gates

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot