Duty Periods

Famous quotes containing the words duty and/or periods:

“Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart’s sanctuary.”
—Augusta Evans (1835–1909)

“Whose are the truly labored sentences? From the weak and flimsy periods of the politician and literary man, we are glad to turn even to the description of work, the simple record of the month’s labor in the farmer’s almanac, to restore our tone and spirits.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)