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Letter "D" » duties
«People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.»
«The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.»
Author: John Adams
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President)
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Keywords:
affections,
American Revolution,
commenced,
commences,
duties,
effected,
Hearts of,
obligations,
radical,
Radical Change,
religious war,
revolution,
sentiments,
The American Revolution,
the revolution,
The War
«Property has its duties as well as its rights»
«Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.»
«The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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Keywords:
divorce,
divorces,
duties,
morals,
moral duty,
observance,
observances,
owe,
partners,
population,
renders,
stricter,
to each other
«Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.»
«The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
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Author,
Essayist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
breath,
common good,
duties,
grasp,
hand and foot,
In Your Eyes,
nearest,
nostril,
nostrils,
plain,
The Path
«The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.»
Author: Confucius
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Keywords:
duties,
equally,
Father,
Fathers and Sons,
guilty,
his son,
neglects,
not guilty,
Son,
The Father,
the Son
«The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui, vanish, - all duties even»
«Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Critic,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
abstract,
claiming,
corresponding,
duties,
History of the,
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occasion,
parliamentary,
privileges,
records,
Rights and privileges,
Rights of Man,
sophism,
stated,
The Rights of Man