George Eliot Quotes About Duty
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Our sense of duty must often wait for some work which shall take the place of dilettanteism [sic] and make us feel that the quality of our action is not a matter of indifference.
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Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
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God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
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The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
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The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life.
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The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.
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If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.
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I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief.
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Man cannot choose his duties.
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Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.
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It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance.
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I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
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Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.
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Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
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You know I have duties──we both have duties──before which feeling must be sacrificed.
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