Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.
I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
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