A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.
Duty is too often what one expects from others and not what one does.
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order.
There may be some people in the country who forget to perform their duty. You should set an example by doing your job with honesty and faithfulness.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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.
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.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.