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“It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor.”

Want May Speak Difficult Duty Morality And Love Neighbor Mediocrity Restraint

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.”

Helping Duty Concerned Faults Neighbor Neutrality Meddling

Author:William Penn

“The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.”

Men Feels Two Done Would Be Simple Duty Neighbor Every Man Wilderness Gates Tickets Plain And Simple

Book:The Rights of Man

Source: The Rights of Man

“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.”

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.”

Men Social Progress Duty Depends Neighbor Stability Reliance Social Life

Book:Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons

Source: Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons

“I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.”

Men Self Country Marriage Principles Wife Duty Dance Neighbor Partners Fidelity Emblems

Author:Jane Austen

“Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.”

Lying Love You Duty Self Love Neighbor Love Your Neighbor

Author:Louisa May Alcott

“Our duties naturally emerge form such fundamental relations as our families, neighborhoods, workplaces, our state or nation. Make it your regular habit to consider your roles-parent, child, neighbor, citizen, leader-and the natural duties that arise from them. Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do.”

Knows Children States Form Nations Parent Natural Leader Roles Duty Habit Citizens Relation Fundamentals Who You Are Neighbor Arise Our Family Neighborhood Workplace Linked Parent Child

Author:Epictetus

“Isn't the fulfillment of our duty towards our neighbor an expression of deepest desire?”

Desire Expression Duty Neighbor Fulfillment

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.”

Giving Self Helping Kindness Duty Highest Neighbor Helping Others Public Service

Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance

“There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.”

People Ifs Should May Persons Ideas Moral Duty Neighbor

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses