Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.