There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
'Line of Duty' had originally been conceived as a returnable drama, with the premise being that the fictional anticorruption unit AC-12 would move on to a new case in each series, centred on a high-profile antagonist accused of corruption.
The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I am astonished but not discouraged by my enormous responsibility. Devoted both from affection and duty to the cause of the people, I shall combat with equal ardor aristocracy, despotism, and faction.
The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.
The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.
Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting forward what I consider to be authentic Australian music.
I know what my strengths and weaknesses are on the pitch. My duty is to be risk averse.
The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its own citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.
For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.
As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn't be admissible.
