Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
It is the duty of Congress to ensure our lead regulations are up to date and consistent with modern detection methods so that we can better protect children from the harmful consequences of exposure.
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
As responsible artists, it's our duty to let the youth know the importance of devotional music.
It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
We have, all of us, our duties. Every action of our lives, and every word that we utter, will either conduce to or detract from the discharge of our duty.
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.
Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.
France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.