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Quote by George Eliot
The reward of ones duty is the power to fulfill another. - George

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

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Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? – George Eliot

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When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. – George Eliot

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. – George Eliot

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Sufficient to each day are the duties to be done and the trials to be endured. God never built a Christian strong enough to carry todays duties and tomorrows anxieties piled on the top of them. – Theodore L. Cuyler

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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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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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Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper. – Ghose Aurobindo

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It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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