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“Hear Mass daily; it will prosper the whole day. All your duties will be performed the better for it, and your soul will be stronger to bear its daily cross. The Mass is the most holy act of religion; you can do nothing that can give greater glory to God or be more profitable for your soul than to hear Mass both frequently and devoutly. It is the favorite devotion of the saints.”

Giving Soul Whole Inspiration Faith Can Do Greater Duty Bears Holy Mass Glory Crosses Stronger Catholic Saint Devotion Your Soul Profitable Glory Of God

Author:Peter Julian Eymard

“Love can do much, but duty more.”

Love Can Do Duty

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.”

Way Feels I Can Pain Can Do Special Duty Stores Feel Good Therapy Tension Muscles Injury Remove Special Places I Can Do This

Author:Douglas Coupland

“It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.”

Men Firsts Next Can Do Duty Concern Happy Things

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“I am an ordinary human being who is impelled to write poetry. ... I still do feel that a poet has a duty to words, and that words can do wonderful things, and it's too bad to just let them lie there without doing anything with and for them.”

Feels Writing Humans Stills Lying Can Do Human Beings Wonderful Poet Duty Ordinary Wonderful Things

Author:Gwendolyn Brooks

“Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please do not do as I request if there is any taint of fear of punishment if you don't. Please do not do as I request to buy my love, that, is hoping that I will love you more if you do. Please do not do as I request if you will feel guilty if you don't. Please do not do as I request if you will feel shameful. And certainly do not do as I request out of any sense of duty or obligation.”

Ifs Feels Children Littles Joy Can Do Love You Duty Please Punishment Hungry Obligation Guilty Ducks Feeding Request Shameful Love You More

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“I make films because I have not learned anything else and I know I can do it to a certain degree. And it is my duty because this might be the inner chronicle of what we are. We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

Knows I Can Might Would Be Film Certain Can Do Fields Duty Degrees Cows I Can Do It Chronicles

Author:Werner Herzog

“There's going to be a lot of eating. My listeners have tweeted me and said "You've just got to keep eating, keep your energy up and have someone on duty to give you a massage if you need it." It will be a case of getting it done and making sure I don't get too cold, because that's crucial for the muscles. So that's all going to be taken care of. But really there's not much you can do - if you start cramping up you've just got to get on with it.”

Ifs Needs Giving Said Done Care Energy Can Do Cases Taken Duty Cold Eating Muscles Crucial Listeners Massage

Author:Greg James

“The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.”

Strong Can Do Compassion Principles Duty Wretched No Compassion

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

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

“Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.”

Knows I Can Can Do Healing Duty Obligation Alcoholics

Author:Malachy McCourt

“A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision.”

Thinking Firsts Children States Home Jobs Young Can Do Community Decision Duty Active Mayors Albany Personal Decisions

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“It's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if - and the 'if' is important - if no safe retreat is available. But we must examine laws that take this further by eliminating the common sense and age-old requirement that people who feel threatened have a duty to retreat, outside their home, if they can do so safely.”

“Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States. I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity - and I know we can do this.”

Knows States Helping Jobs Nations President Can Do United Accepting United States Support Duty Citizens Crisis Fellows Prosperity Vices Conventions Honored Chairman Vice President Delegates

Author:Paul Ryan

“I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is the duty of any private person to fix his mind on ills which he cannot help. This may even become an escape from the works of charity we really can do to those we know. God may call any one of us to respond to some far away problem or support those who have been so called. But we are finite and he will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Needs Feels Mind May Persons Has Beens Real Helping Problem Causes Can Do Poor Support Doubt Duty Sick Charity Worthy Pity Village Far Away Finite Knowing God Worthy Causes

Author:C. S. Lewis

“A sense of being part of the great all-inclusive life prompts us to reflect on our own place and on how we ought to live. Guarding others' lives, the ecology and the earth is the same as protecting one's own life. By like token, wounding them is the same thing as wounding oneself. Consequently, it is the duty of each of us to participate as members of the life community in the evolution of the universe. We can do this by guarding earth's ecological system.”

Earth Universe Can Do Community Duty Ought Evolution Members Oneself Ecology Ecological Prompts Tokens Guarding

Author:Daisaku Ikeda