If doing what ought to be done be made the first business, and success a
secondary consideration,--is not this the way to exalt
virtue?--_Confucius._
The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is
remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in
what is difficult.--_Mencius._
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering
everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to
suffer.--_Dr. Vinet._
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will
find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.--_Beecher._
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; the charities that soothe,
and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like
flowers.--_Wordsworth._
Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their
birthplace, or their father and mother.--_George Eliot._