The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, thoâ€™ it never produced any fruit.

Benjamin Franklin

Duty Value Fruit Never

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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Washington Irving

Affliction Brood Cherish Consider

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Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

Duty Every Every Opportunity Implies

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I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.

Ilhan Omar

Duty Teach People Right

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Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Zoroaster

Good Duty Joy Increases

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A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesnâ€™t get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you must do something about it.

Edward Teller

Focus Future Optimist Right

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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Cannot Cry Dead Duty

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Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Helen Rowland

Marriage Miracle Transform Kiss

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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

Preservation Health Physical morality

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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Hugh Jackman

Sometimes Places Characters Emotions

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I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

James Taylor

Believe Duty I Believe Love

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The Igbos, when they are returned to the fold, must be given their rightful place and as a people who have been misguided and misled by their leaders, the rest of us have a duty to bind their wounds and give them our right hand of fellowship.

Yakubu Gowon

The Igbos The fold Leaders Misled

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The National Military Government owes it as a duty to the people of this country to remove the ills which infested the former regime, to restore the faith of our people in their fatherland and its institutions, so that when the time comes for the civilian government to return, a healthy body politic would have emerged, and last vestiges of bitter factionalism removed.

Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi

National Military Government Country Former regime

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We all have a duty of care to fight rape culture! With the spate of sexual and gender-based violence cases in Nigeria, it is now more important than ever.

Oluwaseun Osowobi

Have A duty Care Fight rape

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We have a duty as the state to protect our economy.We are for the protection of intellectual property.

Angela Merkel

We have Duty The state Protect

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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

Evil Power Necessity Duty

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Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Guy de Maupassant

Government Duty Avoid War

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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Good health Duty Progress World

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If you have a voice that echoes, you have a duty to join with the regular, everyday people to make sure they're heard. When we're united to demand better for one another, we will never be defeated.

Cori Bush

A voice That echoes A duty To join

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Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The worship of God is a duty; the hearing and reading of sermons may be useful; but if men rest in hearing and praying, as too many do, it is as if a tree should value itself in being watered and putting forth leaves, thoâ€™ it never produced any fruit.

Benjamin Franklin

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Washington Irving

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

I have a duty to teach my people about their rights and protect them from being bamboozled.

Ilhan Omar

Zoroaster

A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesnâ€™t get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you must do something about it.

Edward Teller

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

Helen Rowland

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

Hugh Jackman

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

James Taylor

The Igbos, when they are returned to the fold, must be given their rightful place and as a people who have been misguided and misled by their leaders, the rest of us have a duty to bind their wounds and give them our right hand of fellowship.

Yakubu Gowon

Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi

We all have a duty of care to fight rape culture! With the spate of sexual and gender-based violence cases in Nigeria, it is now more important than ever.

Oluwaseun Osowobi

We have a duty as the state to protect our economy.We are for the protection of intellectual property.

Angela Merkel

Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.

Simone Weil

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck.

Guy de Maupassant

Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks

If you have a voice that echoes, you have a duty to join with the regular, everyday people to make sure they're heard. When we're united to demand better for one another, we will never be defeated.

Cori Bush

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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