Quote by Dag Hammarskjold
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an esse

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. – Dag Hammarskjold

Other quotes by Dag Hammarskjold

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Nature
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Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. – Dag Hammarskjold

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Death
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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. – Dag Hammarskjold

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God
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Other Quotes from
alone
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A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. – James Madison

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alone

One thing, however, is sure, – that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free. – Benjamin Tucker

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alone

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Dont just try to come in and take somebody elses life. – Elizabeth Edwards

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alone

I mean Buckingham Palace has never hired a professional public relations outfit let alone a Madison Avenue type and they would throw up their hands in horror at the very idea. – Anthony Holden

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alone

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Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken. – Jonathan Swift

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Promises

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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Tigers die and leave their skins; people die and leave their names. – Japanese Proverb

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