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“The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.”

Helping Names Christ Poor Rich Duty Pope Rich And Poor Love Everyone Help The Poor

Book:Pope Francis Speaks to Our Hearts: Words of Challenge and Hope

Source: Pope Francis Speaks to Our Hearts: Words of Challenge and Hope

“In a world where the name of God is sometimes associated with vengeance and even a duty of hatred and violence, this message is both timely and significant.”

World Sometimes Names Violence Duty Messages Hatred Significant Vengeance Timely

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name. If there's a criticism to be made today, it's that the press isn't doing enough to put the pressure on the government to provide information.”

Ifs Knows Made Enough Government Today Names Media Information Duty Criticism Pressure Presses

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.”

Ifs Art Light Names Voice Duty Daughter Guides Checks Voice Of God Erring

Author:William Wordsworth

“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.”

Firsts Heart Soul Feelings Light Together Past Names Speak Duty Reflection Conscience First Time Breaths Passionate Faculty Intensity Passionate Love

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“At the mention of the name and offence of this degraded being a great sound went up from the entire multitude - a universal cry of execration, not greatly dissimilar from that which may be frequently heard in the crowded Temple of Impartiality when the one whose duty it is to take up, at a venture, the folded papers, announces that the sublime Emperor, or some mandarin of exalted rank, has been so fortunate as to hold the winning number in the Annual State Lottery.”

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“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.”

Thinking Giving Writing Trying Mind Humans Names Hours Half Duty Human Mind Diaries Disregard

Author:Virginia Woolf

“The doctrine of the Declaration of Independence predicated upon the glory of man and the corresponding duty to society that the rights of citizens ought to be protected with every power and resource of the state, and a government that does any less is false to the teachings of that great document - false to the name American.”

Men Doe States Government Names Rights Teaching Duty Ought Citizens Glory Resources Independence Doctrine Protected Documents Declaration Declaration Of Independence Corresponding

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.”

Ifs Men Kind Long Earth Names Christ Duty Honor Glory Ancient Deeds Humble Debt Dues Quarrels Courtesy Reconciliation Payment Good Will Outstanding Glory Of God Charitable

Author:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

“This is our mission at home, to approach these future decisions without hesitation, to do our duty and to remain strong. We know the enemy, we have called him by name for the last twenty years: he is the World Jew. And we know that the Jew must die.”

Knows World Years Home Lasts Dies Names Strong Decision Enemy Duty Approach Twenties Jew Missions Hesitation Future Decisions

Author:Julius Streicher

“You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James E. Faust taught, “Priesthood is the authority delegated to man to minister in the name of God. “The Aaronic Priesthood holds the keys of the ministering of angels. As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you. You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls.”

Men Children Soul Moments Father Names Given President Taught Duty Keys Authority Angel Sacred Guides Ministers Heavenly Bless Rescue Heavenly Father Priesthood Faust

Author:David L. Beck

“Tis the established custom [in Vienna] for every lady to have two husbands, one that bears the name, and another that performs the duties.”

Two Names Duty Bears Husband Customs Vienna

Book:Turkish Embassy Letters

Source: Turkish Embassy Letters

“My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers.”

Names Wish Duty Goes On Performances Silent Newspapers Strict

Book:Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

Source: Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States

“Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.”

Ifs Self Hands Names Seeing Duty Goes On Travel Conscience Sight Bullying Conductor Inexorable Upper Hand

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“duty, the most indecent of all obsessions, was only another name for love.”

Names Duty Obsession

Book:Three Complete Novels

Source: Three Complete Novels

“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.”

States Government Might Form Names Money Power Effects Duty Source Instruments Mere Officers Treasury

Author:Andrew Jackson

“Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.”

Ifs Trying Wells Helping Use Able Names Speak Given My Own Pleasure Talent Duty Reader Benefits Prejudice Humble Endeavour

Author:Anne Bronte

“Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.”

Ifs Trying War Home Faces Names Doors Son Duty Ought Treats Regard Coming Home Unworthy Your Son Shirk Renegades

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“Not only do we have a right to know, we have a duty to know what our Government is doing in our name.”

Knows Government Names Duty

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Suppose it were perfectly certain that the life and fortune of each of us would some day depend upon our winning or losing a game of chess. Do you not think that we should all consider it to be our primary duty to learn at least the names of the pieces and how to position them on the chessboard?”

Thinking Should Certain Games Winning Names Pieces Position Duty Depends Losing Fortune Chess Primaries Win Or Lose Losing A Game

Author:Aldous Huxley

“There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.”

People Ifs Writing Years Two Ideas Stories Names Wish Church Forever Subjects Duty Circumstances Fairs Hearing Absurd Ministers Fifty Buying Sermons Publish Two Days

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“The Muslim contribution to the future of America is to not only speak out as Muslims, but to also speak out as citizens in the name of our common values. Our main contribution is to reconcile the American society with its own values, those that are not in contradiction to Islam. We have a duty of consistency.”

America Values Names Speak Common Duty Citizens Islam Contribution Contradiction Consistency Reconcile Speaks Out American Society Future Of America

Author:Tariq Ramadan

“As Muslims, our interests are our values. In any society, be it in Western or Muslim-majority countries, our duty is that of critical loyalty: Staying loyal to our countries by always being critically engaged in the name of the principles of justice, equality and human brotherhood. We should be the ethical and moral voice wherever we are by saying that, even though we understand economic and geo-strategic interests, we cannot accept a violation of these principles by any society.”

“The greatest want of the world is the want of men - men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.”

Men World Want Soul Fall Names Heaven Sin Honest Duty Conscience Needles Honest Man Do Not Fear

Author:Ellen G. White

“Woe to him whom this world charms from Gospel duty. Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale. Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal. Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness. Woe to him who, in this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though to be false were salvation. Yea, woe to him who, as the great Pilot Paul has it, while preaching to others is himself a castaway.”

World Names Water This World Duty Please Goodness Court Salvation Oil Being True Charm Pilots Preaching Woe Gale Dishonor Castaway

Book:Moby-Dick

Source: Moby-Dick

“Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed a weapon capable of destroying all of Boaderland, Wonderland, Morgavia, Unterlan and who knows what else. I call it WILMA, which stands for Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation. It also happens to be the name of one of my former wives, who had to be put down on account of her feisty temper.”

Knows Said Hands Might Happens Names Sides Loss Wife Duty Weapons Capable Accounts Former Massive Destroying Temper Away From You Annihilation Wonderland Arches Feisty

Author:Frank Beddor