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“Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates, and destroys. But the duties of domestic life, exercised as they must be in retirement, and calling forth all the sensibilities of the female, are perhaps as necessary to the full development of her charms, as the shade and the shower are to the rose, confirming its beauty, and increasing its fragrance.”

Ifs Women Pleasure Sun Flower Duty Development Calling Female Rose Enjoyed Charm Retirement Shade Sensibility Showers Fragrance Domestic Life

Book:Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.”

Needs Persons Self Order Duty Calling

Book:Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul

“The path of duty I clearly trace, / I stand with conscience face to face, / And all her pleas allow; / Calling and crying the while for grace, - / 'Some other time, and some other place; / Oh, not to-day; not now!”

Faces Path Grace Cry Duty Calling Conscience Face To Face

Book:The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

Source: The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary

“A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.”

Heart Soul Spiritual Sin Watches Duty Calling Performances Tender Hearts

Book:The Acceptable Sacrifice

Source: The Acceptable Sacrifice

“Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.”

Duty Calling Intellectual Islam Western Critical Faculty Betrayed

Author:Wafa Sultan

“If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.”

Ifs Done Might Duty Calling Responsible Saved Gods Will Missionary

Author:John Taylor

“There never was a set of men since God made the world under a stronger responsibility to warn this generation, to lift up our voices long and loud, day and night as far as we have the opportunity and declare the words of God unto this generation. We are required to do this. This is our calling. It is our duty. It is our business.”

Men World Long Made Night Opportunity Voice Responsibility Generations Duty Calling Stronger Lifts Loud Word Of God Day And Night This Generation

Author:Wilford Woodruff

“Good stewardship of the environment is not just a personal responsibility, it is a public value... Our duty is to use the land well, and sometimes not to use it at all. This is our responsibility as citizens, but more than that, it is our calling as stewards of the earth.”

Wells Sometimes Use Earth Values Responsibility Environment Land Duty Citizens Calling Stewardship Personal Responsibility Stewards

Author:George W. Bush

“The overwhelming joy of conversion or a new calling is often followed by feelings of being overwhelmed with duties and doctrines. The first joyous feelings are real and give one much-needed initial momentum. But the genuine exhilaration is soon followed by the need to perspire and to pedal.”

Needs Giving Firsts Real Feelings Joy Duty Needed Calling Conversion Genuine Doctrine Overwhelming Overwhelmed Initials Momentum Joyous Exhilaration Pedals Being Overwhelmed

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Using the language of heroism, calling Daniel Ellsberg a hero, and calling the other people who made great sacrifices heroes - even though what they have done is heroic - is to distinguish them from the civic duty they performed, and excuses the rest of us from the same civic duty to speak out when we see something wrong, when we witness our government engaging in serious crimes, abusing power, engaging in massive historic violations of the Constitution of the United States. We have to speak out or we are party to that bad action.”