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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

“Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved country during the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice to that all personal and local considerations.”

World Country Watches Trouble Sacrifice Mankind Duty Safety Sacred Locals Beloved Motive Consideration Honorable Posterity Agitate Beloved Country

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.”

Trouble Duty Comfort Infinite Motive Smallest Never Fear

Book:The Joy of Preaching

Source: The Joy of Preaching

“Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.”

Ifs Facts Opportunity Strong Wealth Loss Knowing Greater Trouble Duty Harder Stronger Burden Gods Will Greater Things Greatest Wealth

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself - nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.”

Happiness Trouble Duty Anxiety Spring Performances Midst Unhappiness Anxious Strict

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.”

Greater Trouble Duty Cat Bravery Rewards Devotion Devotion To Duty

Author:John R. Erickson

“I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.”

Mother Father Responsibility Trouble Strange Son Duty Grew Grew Up Curiosity Debt Gambling Mixtures Presbyterians

Author:Rupert Murdoch