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“Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.”

People Ifs Children Play Grows Growing Up Duty Sorrow Children Playing

Author:Mary Oliver

“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

“We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.”

Knows Grows Church Duty Proof Camps Hysteria Cockneys

Author:Richard Aldington

“Loyalty to God is alone fundamental. Feelings, words, deeds, must be beads strung on the string of duty. Let the world tell you in a hundred ways what your life is for. Say you ever and only, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O my God." Out of that dutiful root grows the beautiful life, the life radically and radiantly true to God--the only life that can be lived in both worlds.”

World Way Feelings Beautiful Life Is Grows Duty Hundred Roots Fundamentals Deeds Loyalty Strings Beautiful Life Beads

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“When society is rightly organized, the wife and mother will have time, wish and will to grow intellectually, and will know that the limits of her sphere, the extent of her duties, are prescribed only by the measure of her ability.”

Knows Mother Wish Grows Ability Wife Duty Limits Organized Spheres Wives And Mothers

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“When we have sampled much and have wandered far and have seen how fleeting and sometimes superficial a lot of the world is, our gratitude grows for the privilege of being part of something we can count on-home and family and the loyalty of loved ones. We come to know what it means to be bound together by duty, by respect, by belonging. We learn that nothing can fully take the place of the blessed relationship of family life.”

Knows World Mean Sometimes Home Together Grows Duty Gratitude Blessed Bounds Privilege Loyalty Belonging Loved Ones Superficial Fleeting Family Life Home And Family

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“I don't believe in competing, because there's room for everyone. You have to compete with yourself, because your duty to grow as a human being and keeping your humility is much more important than your music career. You can get money, women, travels, but all that's an illusion.”

Believe Humans Important Grows Human Beings Rooms Careers Humility Duty Illusion Don't Believe Competing Get Money Music Career

Author:Juan Gabriel

“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

“Satan's time of tempting is usually after an ordinance; and the reason is, because then he thinks he shall find us most secure. When we have been at solemn duties, we are apt to think all is done, and we grow remiss, and leave off that zeal and strictness as before; just as a soldier, who after a battle leaves off his armour, not once dreaming, of an enemy. Satan watches his time, and when we least suspect, then he throws in a temptation.”

Thinking Has Beens Reason Done Dream Grows Prayer Enemy Watches Duty Battle Soldier Temptation Secure Satan Suspects Solemn Zeal Tempting Ordinances Armour

Book:All Things for Good

Source: All Things for Good

“I used to stand in front of the mirror in my bedroom. I shared a bedroom - like a lot of people in my era, in my neighborhood - with my two brothers and an uncle. And I'd stand there in front of the mirror over the dresser and I would practice: meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views of Cicero, Bacon and Baba.”

People Men Believe Two Young Used Grows Views Accepting Practice Growing Up Fronts Brother Duty Mirrors Library Eras Young Man Neighborhood Bedroom Uncles Meek Baba Dressers Two Brothers

Author:Joe Biden

“I would encourage the youth to get in to their bodies as much as possible through sport or exercise, and to embrace their uniques expressions as individuals and freethinkers. They are lucky enough to grow up in a time where the individual is celebrated - it is their duty to find their voices so that they can be heard. It is time to practice compassionate communication.”

Enough Body Individual Grows Sports Voice Practice Growing Up Heard Youth Expression Duty Communication Exercise Lucky Embrace Compassionate Freethinker

Author:Leilani Bishop

“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.”

Men Grows Courage Duty Constitution Bravery Arise Occasions Uniforms Forsake

Author:Joseph Addison

“If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.”

Ifs Desire Grows Religious Failing Duty Gods Will Heed Relationship With God Loveless

Author:Pope Benedict XVI