“Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that duty.” MenActionDutyProfoundBoundsConvictionMissionsEvery ManFacultyPledgeFulfilment Book:Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles Source: Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles
“I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.” FeelsWellsSometimesSeemsFacesWorkDoubtDutyConscienceProfoundSatisfactionFollowingSuperiorsEmptinessMidstSpontaneousObeyingEnnuiSneerFatality Author:Gustave Flaubert
“I think that all things which evoke discipline: study, and our duties to men and to the commonwealth, war, and personal hardship, and even the need for subsistence, ought to be greeted by us with profound gratitude, for only through them can we attain to the least detachment; and only so can we know peace.” ThinkingKnowsMenNeedsWarStudyDutyOughtDisciplineGratitudeAll ThingsProfoundHardshipDetachmentEvokeCommonwealthSubsistence Author:J. Robert Oppenheimer
“I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.” PeopleIfsTryingFictionLaughingCryDutyProfoundStorytellerOld FashionedSymbolicMaking People LaughSneakFiction WritersSneak In Author:W. P. Kinsella
“The 19th century Mormons, including some of my ancestors, were not eager to practice plural marriage. They followed the example of Brigham Young, who expressed his profound negative feelings when he first had this principle revealed to him. The Mormons of the 19th century who practiced plural marriage, male and female, did so because they felt it was a duty put upon them by God.” FirstsFeelingsYoungFeltPrinciplesPracticeCenturyExampleDutyNegativeFemaleProfoundMalesIncludingAncestor19th CenturyNegative Feelings Author:Dallin H. Oaks