Famous quotes containing the words active and/or duty:
“This teaching is not practical in the sense in which the New Testament is. It is not always sound sense in practice. The Brahman never proposes courageously to assault evil, but patiently to starve it out. His active faculties are paralyzed by the idea of caste, of impassable limits of destiny and the tyranny of time.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“It is seldom very hard to do ones duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
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