Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.—Dr. Vinet.
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.—Beecher.
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; the charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.—Wordsworth.
Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace, or their father and mother.—George Eliot.
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Ear.—A side intelligencer.—Lamb.
Eyes and ears, two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores of will and judgment.—Shakespeare.
The wicket of the soul.—Sir J. Davies.
The road to the heart.—Voltaire.
Early-rising.—Early-rising not only gives us more life in the same number of our years, but adds likewise to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of existence in the same measure of time, but increases also the measure.—Colton.