#duty

The consequence was, that the most sudden and visible good effects were perceived from the use of oranges and lemons; one of those who had taken them, being at the end of 6 days fit for duty. ↗

— James Lind

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I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks. ↗

— Bai Ling

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I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow? ↗

— Pierre Loti

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Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgment when we have not. ↗

— John Lubbock

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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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