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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
Health
Few
Duty
Physical
Seem
Morality
Such A Thing
Conscious
Thing
Preservation
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield
Government
Peace
People
Sunshine
Duty
Out
Chief
Stand
Keep
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
James Taylor
Love
Musicians
Responsibility
Duty
Pain
Believe
Others
Out
Share
Reach
Your
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
John Ruskin
Architecture
First
Goodness
Duty
Pleasing
Kinds
Practical
Well
Buildings
Doing
Graceful
Then
Require
Two
It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.
Nina Simone
Reflect
Duty
Live
Times
Artist
Which
We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.
Roy Barnes
Great
Fight
Challenge
Job
Duty
Our
Reconciliation
Seek
Voices
Division
Least
Should
I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
Andrew Johnson
Great
Insist
National
Duty
Economy
Executive
Source
Itself
Expenditure
Hold
Frugality
Sparing
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.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
You
Honesty
People
Job
Some People
Example
Country
Duty
Some
Perform
Faithfulness
Doing
Forget
May
Should
Your
Who
Set
I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.
Elon Musk
Future
Light
Duty
Think
Maintain
Make
Sure
Consciousness
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George Eliot
People
Duty
Apt
See
Most
Course
Which
Painful
Conscientious
Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thankful
Gratitude
Duty
Ought
None
Expect
Which
Paid
Right
What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.
Kamala Harris
You
People
Opportunities
Opportunity
Daughter
Important
Duty
Other
Those
Know
Well
Make
Sure
Your
Fortunate
Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Time
Will
Responsibility
Islam
Glorious
Past
Duty
Every
Our
Ourselves
Muslim
Worthy
Shall
Soon
Come
Expect
Realise
Justify
Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Robert E. Lee
You
Old
Wish
Duty
All Things
Puritan
More
Never
Like
Cannot
Should
Your
Less
Things
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson
War
Matter
Try
Fire
Endeavor
Duty
Our
Inquiring
Ourselves
Must
Brought
Shall
Fired
Take
House
Within
Without
Still
Whether
Place
Avoid
Whom
Actually
Defend
Extinguish
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
Tiberius
Good
Sheep
Duty
Skin
Shepherd
His
Them
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
W. C. Fields
Life
Death
Hope
Lost
Duty
Everything
Becomes
Disgrace
Including
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving
Solitude
Affliction
Duty
Every
Other
Consider
Brood
Wound
Seek
Only
Open
Divorced
Over
Heal
Dead
Sorrow
Cherish
Forget
Refuse
Which
Keep
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Government
Obligation
Safety
First
Duty
Highest
Public
Public Safety
Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.
Barbara Boxer
Time
Peace
Law
Safety
Duty
Threatened
Law Enforcement
Never
Protect
Off
Get
Officers
Any
Place
Public
Enforcement
Dedicated
Help
Who
Public Safety
Public Servants
Servants
Sworn
Need
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Charles Buxton
Good
You
Happy
Made
First
Duty
Other
Wronged
Make
Make Up
Up
Get
May
Children
Them
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
Eduardo Galeano
Sad
History
Joy
Beauty
Duty
Out
Torn
Sport
Voyage
Industry
Became
Got
Very
Blossoms
The History Of
Soccer
Roots
Play
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
James Russell Lowell
Good
Character
Duty
Luck
Good Luck
Willing
Observance
Handmaid
Upright
Energetic
Conscientious
Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.
Joel Osteen
God
Day
Morning
Thoughts
You
People
Sunday
Some People
Duty
Think
Hey
Say
Says
Sunday Morning
Religious
Fine
Some
Through
Box
Talking
Without
Pray
Did
Scripture
Means
Your
Even
Keep
Love can do much, but duty more.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love
Duty
More
Much
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John Ruskin
First
Duty
Every
State
See
Born
Shall
Fed
Attains
Well
Till
Educated
Years
Discretion
Child
Clothed
Therein
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