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“It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.”

Knows Pain Speak Causes Trouble Duty Ill

Book:The Unclassed

Source: The Unclassed

“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

“The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.”

Men Pain Enjoy Pleasure Pay Consciousness Duty Honor Rewards

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring”

Pain Duty Attachment

Author:Robyn Davidson

“Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.”

Giving Looks Soul Dream Pain Past Destiny Alive Duty Achievement Rewards Emptiness Nothingness Toil Incentives Our Destiny Your Destiny Here And Now Daydreaming Desolation

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another.”

Different Pain Hurt Common Duty Wheels Brake

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“In the performance of our duty one feeling should direct us; the case we should consider as our own, and we should ask ourselves, whether, placed under similar circumstances, we should choose to submit to the pain and danger we are about to inflict.”

Should Feelings Pain Asks Cases Danger Duty Circumstances Direct Performances Submit Surgery

Author:Astley Cooper

“This is the sum of duty: do naught to others which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.”

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Author:Vyasa

“Let the awe [the teacher] has upon [children's] minds be so tempered with the constant marks of tenderness and good will, that affection may spur them to their duty, and make them find a pleasure in complying with his dictates. This will bring them with satisfaction to their tutor; make them hearken to him, as to one who is their friend, that cherishes them, and takes pains for their good; this will keep their thoughts easy and free, whilst they are with him, the only temper wherein the mind is capable of receiving new information, and of admitting into itself those impressions.”

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume

“With all the catastrophes that are going on, and all the hardships that are going on around the world, you don't do the world any service by walking around in pain and at war with yourself. You'd do a lot better good, a lot better service, if you find that thing within yourself that says ...move forward it's okay. It's are duty to see through it and work through it.”

Ifs World War Pain Moving Duty Walking Okay Moving Forward Around The World Hardship Catastrophe War With Yourself

Author:Gino Vannelli

“I feel that if entertainment is that important, the media, then it's my duty, not only to mankind but to God, to fulfill the promise that I carry on this work. If someone, for instance, can forget their pains and their ills and their strife by watching any performer then I think this work is worthwhile.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Important Pain Forget Mankind Media Duty Promise Entertainment Instance Performers Worthwhile Strife

Author:Liberace

“Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.”

Way Giving May War Pain Sea Duty Painful Consideration Officers Great Business Horatio Endless Sea

Author:Horatio Nelson

“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”

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Book:THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

Source: THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…

“I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.”

Believe Pain I Believe Stars Responsibility Music Share Duty Musician Musical Reach Out

Author:James Taylor

“I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.”

Knows Important Pain Speak Felt Walks Share Duty Survival Rain Intense Triumph Speak The Truth

Book:Conversations with Audre Lorde

Source: Conversations with Audre Lorde

“Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.”

Want Inspiration Motivational Pain Motivation Positive Duty Habit Conflict Everyday Golden Golden Rule Without Pain Workplace Conflict

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations