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“Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.”

Wells Pleasure Duty Taste Originals

Book:Studies in Physiology and Medicine

Source: Studies in Physiology and Medicine

“No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.”

Men Wells Hurt Duty Laziness

Book:SORMONS ON BIBLICAL CHARACTERS

Source: SORMONS ON BIBLICAL CHARACTERS

“In times of crisis our nation depends on the courage and determination of the Guard. You know the call of active duty can come at any time. You stand ready to put your lives on hold and answer that call, ... And you did so because you love your state and your country. America appreciates your courageous decision to serve. Together with your comrades in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Reserves, you are showing that patriotism is alive and well in Idaho and throughout the United States.”

“The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.”

Wells Facts Judging Duty

Author:Ovid

“The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account”

People Wells Practice Serious Duty Accounts Majority Permit Schooled Uneasiness

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as well as an intellectual experience. Each time you make a mistake, you're learning from the school of hard knocks, which is the best education available.”

Wells Hard School Levels Mistake Risk Emotional Duty Intellectual Available Heavy Exposing Best Education Exposing Yourself School Of Hard Knocks

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”

Ifs Want Wells May Children Done Parent Share Position Duty Things Done Do It Yourself

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.”

Wells Rights Duty Flow Human Rights Civil Rights Rights And Duties

Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task because it is cast in the day of small things; scornful of baseness, awake to their own duties as well as to their rights, following the higher law with reverence, and in this world doing all that in their power lies, so that when death comes they may feel that humanity is in some degree better because they lived.”

“Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles.... I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee.... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.”

Wells May I Can Seems Wish Duty Kings Glory Woods Bread Bless Trifles Wilder Redwoods

Author:John Muir

“Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly. This is true about Mr. Wilson now and it has been true about all our Presidents in the past. It is our duty at all times to tell the truth about the President and about every one else, save in the cases where to tell the truth at the moment would benefit the public enemy.”

Wells Has Beens States Moments Past President United Enemy Cases United States Support Duty Degrees Benefits Dues Loyalty All Time Telling The Truth Wilson Public Enemies

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“Obviously, the state's responsibility should be to legislate rules for a well-ordered society. It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation.”

Should Wells States Individual Nations Responsibility Crime Duty Bedroom Creeps Prohibition Individual Rights

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.”

Wells Mean War Self Action Form Order Social Duty International Chosen Symbols Fascism Righteous Brutality Blackness Without Hope Self Righteous Tubs Smartness Tinkering

Author:E. M. Forster

“Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role of prophet and gadfly. To his contemporaries it appeared frivolous and contradictory to perform as both superman and socialist, sceptic and believer, legalist and heretic, high-brow and mob-orator. But feeling the duty to teach as well as to mirror mankind, Shaw did not accept himself as a contradictory being.”

Wells Ends Feelings Able Accepting Roles Teach Seeing Mankind Position Duty Mirrors Including Believer Prophet Socialist Contradictory Brows Heretic Frivolous Orators Dodge Sceptic Gadflies

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“Thought may well be ever ranging, And opinion ever changing, Task-work be, though ill begun, Dealt with by experience better; By the law and by the letter Duty done is duty done Do it, Time is on the wing!”

Wells May Done Law Opinion Duty Tasks Letters Wings Ill

Book:Poems: With a Memoir

Source: Poems: With a Memoir

“If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.”

People Ifs Giving Wells Pay Rights Duty Lays

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite.”

Source: Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious

“The sluggish economy is creating a situation where the young people in Japan cannot cherish their desires or have prospects for their future. Also, the decline in Japan's economic capability is resulting in a declining presence for Japan's foreign policy as well. Accordingly, the duties and mission that I must fulfill are pretty clear: namely, to regain a strong and robust economy, and also to restore Japan's strong foreign policy capability.”

People Wells Young Desire Strong Situation Economy Clear Economic Policy Duty Creating Missions Japan Cherish Capability Foreign Policy Decline Prospects Robust Sluggish

Author:Shinzo Abe

“Prema (love): practise that; develop that; spread that; and all the hatreds and jealousies of today will disappear. That is the duty of the Divine Life Society, here as well as elsewhere.”

Wells Today Divine Duty Hatred Spread Disappear Elsewhere Practise Divine Life Hatred And Jealousy

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“A lawyer's duty is to read the law well himself, then tell the people what it is, and let them act upon it.”

People Wells Law Duty Lawyer

Book:The Journal of Brigham: Brigham Young's Own Story in His Own Words

Source: The Journal of Brigham: Brigham Young's Own Story in His Own Words

“The family believes that my grandfather, Mark Felt Sr., is a great American hero who went well above and beyond the call of duty at much risk to himself to save his country from a horrible injustice. We all sincerely hope the country will see him this way as well.”

Way Believe Wells Country Felt Risk Duty Hero Mark Injustice Horrible Grandfather Sincerely My Grandfather Great American Call Of Duty Above And Beyond American Hero

Author:Mark Felt

“The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.”

“Spirituality is best manifested on the ground, not in the air. Rapturous day-dreams, flights of heavenly fancy, longings to see the Invisible, are less expensive and less expressive than the plain doing of duty. To have bread excite thankfulness and a drink of water send the heart to God is better than sighs for the unattainable. To plow a straight furrow on Monday or dust a room well on Tuesday or kiss a bumped forehead on Wednesday is worth more than the most ecstatic thrill under Sunday eloquence. Spirituality is seeing God in common things, and showing God in common tasks.”

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“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

“Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.”

Men Wells Ends Understanding Taken Failing He Man Duty Solitude Satisfaction Flying Manners

Author:Edmund Burke

“The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.”

Wells Action Energy Water Consciousness Duty Victory Comfort Determination Trials Luxury Accomplished Midst Magnificent Calmness Repose Tempest Felicity

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“Lying is the misuse of language. We know that. We need to remember that it works the other way round too. Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer's first duty is to use language well.”

Source: Steering the craft: exercises and discussions on story writing for the lone navigator or the mutinous crew

“Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.”

Men Wells Action Desire Duty Direct Intention Affection Every Man Obligation Stations

Book:The Elements of Morality, Including Polity

Source: The Elements of Morality, Including Polity

“The origin of the stupid ideal of womanhood against which men as well as women to-day are still fighting was the asceticism of the Christian religion; and, unless St. Paul was a woman in disguise, I fail to see how woman is to be blamed for a conception of her place and duty from which she has suffered more than anybody else.”

Men Wells Stills Christian Fighting Failing Stupid Duty Ideals Conception Disguise Womanhood Asceticism

Author:Dora Russell

“I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.”

Wells Together Law Order Wonderful Mankind Duty Rewards Obligation Obedience God Love Good Life Provision Wonderful Love

Author:William Melmoth

“The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.”

Feels Wells Made Done Duty Revolution Torture Ashamed Captured

Author:Ashraf Dehghani

“Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.”

Source: The beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd

“Go to bed before 8 p.m. Thieves generally break in between 12 and 2 a.m., so if you spend the evening in useless talk and go to bed late, you are likely to lose your valuables and your reputation as well. Save the firing and the light that will be wasted by staying up late and get up at four in the morning. Have a cold bath and say your prayers, and after you have dressed, give your orders for the day to your wife and children and retainers and so be ready to go on duty before 6 [a.m.]”

Ifs Giving Wells Children Light Order Loses Prayer Break Morning Four Wife Advice Ready Duty Goes On Cold Bed Late Reputation Get Up Evening Useless Staying Thieves Baths Our Prayers Firing Retainers

Author:Hojo Soun

“No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.”

Wells Government Principles Duty

Book:Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Source: Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

“If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.”

“We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.”

Life Wells Duty Confined

Author:Epictetus

“If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet.”

Ifs Writing Wells Hands Choices Failing Poet Duty Obligation Well Being Minorities Oblivion

Author:Joseph Brodsky

“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.”

Feels Wells Sometimes Seems Faces Work Doubt Duty Conscience Profound Satisfaction Following Superiors Emptiness Midst Spontaneous Obeying Ennui Sneer Fatality

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.”

Wells Social Enemy Duty Conscious My Friends Filled Performing Righteous Indignation Righteous Indignation

Author:Max Gluckman

“Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.”

Wells Poverty Rights Duty Property Possession Property Rights Real Property

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young with the tares of our own fads. It is for this reason that it is easily possible for teaching to be too 'up to date'. It is always well, before handing the cup of knowledge to the young, to wait until the froth has settled.”

Mind Wells Reason Young Waiting Education Generations Teaching Duty Training Doctors Cups Rising Virgins Fads Up To Date

Author:Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

“Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.”

World Wells Education Modern Duty Honor Judgment Modern World Good Judgment Liberal Education Rectitude Duty And Honor

Author:Charles William Eliot

“Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.”

Ifs Trying Wells Helping Use Able Names Speak Given My Own Pleasure Talent Duty Reader Benefits Prejudice Humble Endeavour

Author:Anne Bronte

“I regard the state of which I am a citizen as a public utility, like the organization that supplies me with water, gas, and electricity. I feel that it is my civic duty to pay my taxes as well as my other bills, and that it is my moral duty to make an honest declaration of my income to the income tax authorities. But I do not feel that I and my fellow citizens have a religious duty to sacrifice our lives in war on behalf of our own state, and, a fortiori, I do not feel that we have an obligation or a right to kill and maim citizens of other states or to devastate their land.”

“When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.”

Men Should Wells Looks Form Prayer Virtue Duty Praying Method Salvation Perpetual Our Prayers Petitions

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.”

Men Wells May Children Important Social Interest Support Duty Exercise Vote Voting Impress Solemn Trifles Trustees Elections And Voting Not Voting

Book:Speeches on various occasions

Source: Speeches on various occasions

“If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which they impose upon us. We hold these institutions of government, religion, and learning, to be transmitted, as well as enjoyed. We are in the line of conveyance, through which whatever has been obtained by the spirit and efforts of our ancestors is to be communicated to our children.”

Source: The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster

“I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.”

Wells Christian Rooms Masters Duty

Author:John Newton