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“I believe that a country's first duty is to set its own house in order; and having set its own house in order, it can contribute better to the community of the world. Instead of being a weak link, it should be a strong link.”

World Should Firsts Believe Country Order House Strong I Believe Community Duty Weak Links Cooperation

Author:George Cadle Price

“Ill-luck is, in nine cases out of ten, the result of taking pleasure first and duty second, instead of duty first and pleasure second.”

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Author:Theodore T. Munger

“Reflection is the business of man; a sense of his state is his first duty: but who remembereth himself in joy? Is it not in mercy then that sorrow is allotted unto us?”

Men Firsts States Joy Duty Sorrow Reflection Mercy

Author:William Shakespeare

“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.”

People Giving Firsts Government Duty

Author:Simon Bolivar

“The first duty of intelligence is to recognize the obvious.”

Firsts Responsibility Duty Obvious

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“We preach the virtues of democracy abroad. We must practice its duties here at home. Voting is the first duty of democracy.”

Firsts Home Practice Virtue Democracy Duty Voting Patriotic

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country.”

Ifs Firsts Children Important Country Natural Tree Duty Elements Resources Our Children Forests Conservation Natural Resources

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple's CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties. . . . By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.”

Firsts Home Social Wise Duty Capacity Increase Seeking Accomplish Stewards

Author:Eliza R. Snow

“When a woman's heart is flowing over for the first time with deep and passionate love, she is all love. Every faculty of her soul rushes together in the intensity of the one feeling; thought, reflection, conscience, duty, the past, the future, they are names to her light as the breath which speaks them; her soul is full.”

Firsts Heart Soul Feelings Light Together Past Names Speak Duty Reflection Conscience First Time Breaths Passionate Faculty Intensity Passionate Love

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.”

Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works

“If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.”

Ifs Firsts Artist Saws Duty Function Critics

Author:J. E. H. MacDonald

“Why, I say, that to tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection; it is plunder, and I entirely disclaim it; but I ask you to protect the rights and interests of labour generally in the first place, by allowing no free imports from countries which meet you with countervailing duties; and, in the second place, with respect to agricultural produce, to compensate the soil for the burdens from which other classes are free by an equivalent duty. This is my view of what is called "protection."”

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Author:Benjamin Disraeli