Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.
Jane AustenTags: love integrity romance marriage joy self-determination affection duty feelings matrimony
An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
Immanuel KantTags: inspirational morality action duty
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
G.K. ChestertonTags: identity responsibility duty uniqueness
If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable. One would say that it punishes you for comprehending it; but no, it rewards you for it; for it puts you into a hell where you feel God at your side.
Victor HugoTags: duty
Love can flourish only as long as it is free and spontaneous; it tends to be killed by the thought of duty. To say that it is your duty to love so-and-so is the surest way to cause you to hate him of her.
Bertrand RussellTags: love duty spontaneity
Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.
Tryon EdwardsEvery duty that is bidden to wait comes back with seven fresh duties at its back.
Charles KingsleyTags: procrastination duty
Duty is what one expects from others.
Oscar WildeTags: life definitions duty
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
Helen KellerTags: duty discipline
The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.
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