James Russell Lowell Quotes About Duty
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All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
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Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That is no true alms which the hand can hold; He gives nothing but worthless gold Who gives from a sense of duty; But he who gives a slender mite, And gives to that which is out of sight, That thread of the all-sustaining Beauty Which runs through all and doth all unite, - The hand cannot clasp the whole of his alms, The heart outstretches its eager palms, For a god goes with it and makes it store To the soul that was starving in darkness before.
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New occasions teach new duties.
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He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.
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New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
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Good luck is the willing handmaid of upright, energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty.
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