Duty

"Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things … You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less."

"The lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the wing; The ant its la-bor has be-gun, The woods with music ring. Shall birds, and bees, and ants, be wise, While I my mo-ments waste? O let me with the morn-ing rise, And to my du-ty haste."

"We all know our duty better than we discharge it."

"Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty."

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy."

"We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves."