How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through a

How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you. – Johann von Goethe

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The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us. – Proverb

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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. – John Fowles

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Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the hearts sanctuary. – Augusta Jane Evans

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The reward of ones duty is the power to fulfill another. – George Eliot

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