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What is possible is our highest duty.
What is possible is our highest duty.
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need;
For 'tis impossible you should proceed.
It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children
It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless
Are scattered read more
The primal duties shine aloft, like stars;
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound
to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. read more
Every mission constitutes a pledge of duty. Every man is bound
to consecrate his every faculty to its fulfilment. He will
derive his rule of action from the profound conviction of that
duty.
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, read more
So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So near is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough:
I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Hath the spirit of all beauty
Kissed you in the path of duty?
Hath the spirit of all beauty
Kissed you in the path of duty?
