“The less we show our love to a woman, Or please her less, and neglect our duty, The more we trap and ruin her surely, In the flattering toils of philandery.” ShowsDutyPleaseRuinsNeglectTrapsToilOur LoveFlattering Author:Alexander Pushkin
“The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.” WorldEnoughChristianDesireObjectsDutyPleaseCommandConsistently Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character
“Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please do not do as I request if there is any taint of fear of punishment if you don't. Please do not do as I request to buy my love, that, is hoping that I will love you more if you do. Please do not do as I request if you will feel guilty if you don't. Please do not do as I request if you will feel shameful. And certainly do not do as I request out of any sense of duty or obligation.” IfsFeelsChildrenLittlesJoyCan DoLove YouDutyPleasePunishmentHungryObligationGuiltyDucksFeedingRequestShamefulLove You More Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.” MeanLawLevelsDutyPleaseOrdinaryEssenceConstitutionSuperiorsDepartmentLegislatureProvincesJudicialParamountUnchangeable Author:John Marshall
“Who can describe the injustice and the cruelties that in the course of centuries the peoples of color of the world have suffered at the hands of Europeans?... We and our civilization are burdened, really, with a great debt. We are not free to confer benefits on these men, or not, as we please; it is our duty. Anything we give them is not benevolence but atonement.” MenWorldGivingHandsCoursesCenturyColorDutyPleaseCivilizationBenefitsInjusticeDebtCrueltyBenevolenceAtonement Author:Albert Schweitzer
“[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.” IfsMenGivingShouldLongDoneCharacterHandsHeavenEasyInterestLosesPerfectPleasureJudgingDutyMoralityPleaseConcernShameLovelyKingdomsGentlenessCarpetCheerfulnessBuilderChildlikeKingdom Of HeavenIndelible Author:Robert Louis Stevenson
“But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.” WorldWantFeelsYearsHumansDoeArtMadeIdeasReasonFeelingsEarthCertainLosesDutyGratitudePleaseShapesConcernAimDebtDrawingTendenciesThirtyConcentrationSincereSerenityCalmnessThirty YearsSouvenirs Author:Vincent Van Gogh
“Everyone has the right to doubt everything as often as he pleases and the duty to do it at least once. No way of looking at things is too sacred to be reconsidered. No way of doing things is beyond improvement.” WayRealDoubtDutyPleaseSacredImprovementReal Life Book:The use of lateral thinking Source: The use of lateral thinking
“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.” WorldNamesWaterThis WorldDutyPleaseGoodnessCourtSalvationOilBeing TrueCharmPilotsPreachingWoeGaleDishonorCastaway Book:Moby-Dick Source: Moby-Dick