Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Duty demands the parent's voice / Should sanctify 45 the daughter's choice, / In that is due obedience shown; / To choose belongs to her alone. Moore.

Duty, especially out of the domain of love, is the veriest slavery in the world. J. G. Holland.

Duty has the virtue of making us feel the reality of a positive world, while at the same time it detaches us from it. Amiel.

Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning, and goes to bed with us in the evening. Gladstone.

Duty is the demand of the passing hour. Goethe.

Duty scorns prudence, and criticism has few 50 terrors for a man with a great purpose. Disraeli.

Duty—the command of Heaven, the eldest voice of God. Kingsley.

Dux fœmina facti—A woman the leader in the deed. Virg.

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Each animal out of its habitat would starve. Emerson.