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“Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph.”

Men Past Nations Responsibility Gone Blood Tears Duty Fit Labor Moved Every Man Triumph Sweat Citizenship Anguish Peril Forefathers Moved On Sweat And Tears Blood And Sweat

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Tears ready to do duty at a minute's notice.”

Minutes Tears Ready Duty

Author:Juvenal

“There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.”

Wells May Done Christian Tears Duty Thousand Crosses Cheerfulness

Book:The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

“Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.”

Children Tears Duty Eloquence Culprit

Book:A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy: And, Continuation of the Bramine's Journal : with Related Texts

“That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.”

People Way Ends Film Young Life Is Joy Found Watches Tears Duty Shots Errors Wave These Days Fatherhood Hollow Happy Endings Monogamy Found Love Filial Filial Duty

Author:Nick Hornby