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“The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.”

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Author:Ramana Maharshi

“I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.”

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Author:Virginia Woolf

“Duty is the demand of the hour.”

Hours Duty Demand

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life.”

Hours Willing Duty Cost Slavery

Book:Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States

Source: Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States

“Every hour has its immediate duty, its special injunction which dominates all others.”

Hours Special Duty

Book:Memoirs of Hadrian

Source: Memoirs of Hadrian

“Parents teach in the toughest school in the word: The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, theclassroom teacher, and the janitor, all rolled into two. . . . There are few schools to train you for your job, and there is no general agreement on the curriculum. . . . You are on duty, or at least on call, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for at least 18 years for each child you have. Besides that, you have to contend with an administration that has two leaders or bosses, whichever the case may be.”

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Author:Virginia Satir

“To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.”

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Book:Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

Source: Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides ...

“Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.”

Hours Four Duty Twenties

Book:From Yeravda Mandir: Ashram Observances

Source: From Yeravda Mandir: Ashram Observances

“The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference between duty and delight. Therefore, the first and most important job of a parent is to fall in love with the worship of God. You can't impart what you don't possess.”

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Author:John Piper

“In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.”

“Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”

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Book:Collected fiction

Source: Collected fiction

“You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.”