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Whatever ought to be, can be.

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

Everyone ought to wish to marry; some ought to be allowed to marry; and others ought to marry twice - to make the average good.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.