Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Duty
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Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved for those momentous acts and duties in which the strongest and best-balanced natures must feel themselves deficient, and where humility no less than prudence prescribes deliberation.
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Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.
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The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.
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It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.
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