A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
责任
Duty
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
与其说人是环境的产物，不如说人是环境的建筑师。
A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
责任感在工作中是有用的，但在人际关系中是有害的。人们希望被喜欢，而不是忍气吞声。
He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.
对现在的责任不忠的人，会把织布机上的一根线弄断，当你解开一生的织布时，你就会看到效果。
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
为幸福而追求幸福，你不会找到它;追求责任，幸福就会随着阳光而来。
My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.
我的第一个任务是写一个扣人心弦的故事。第二，传达可信的人物形象，让你感受到他们的感受。只有第三个想法。
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
我们对父母的感激之情是向前的，而不是向后的。我们欠父母的是孩子们给我们的账单。
Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
每天做一些你不想做的事情。这是养成不劳而获的做事习惯的黄金法则。
I engaged upon those activities because I believed that, in the dangerous circumstances which have been created in South Africa, it was my duty to do so.
我从事这些活动，因为我相信，在南非已经出现的危险情况下，我有责任这样做。
My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.
亲爱的，在我没有指导和拓展我们亲爱的孩子们的思想的情况下，完全由你来承担的责任是艰苦的，也是负责任的。
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
如果没有耐心和对这个标志着这个国家并定义了它的特征的机构的开放的研究，一个人就不能履行忠诚的义务。
If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
如果教育是国家的义务，那么国家也有义务承担教育的负担，即教育的税收。
Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
我们的责任是鼓励每一个人在奋斗中实现自己的最高理想，同时努力使理想尽可能接近真理。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
什么时候，我们的良心会变得如此温柔，以至于我们会采取行动，阻止人类的苦难，而不是为之复仇?
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
行政人员所要履行的职责，没有一项比把正确的人放在正确的地方更重要的了。
I think the first duty of society is justice.
我认为社会的首要责任是正义。
After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.
每一场风暴过后，太阳都会微笑;每一个问题都有解决的办法，灵魂不可推卸的责任就是保持愉快。
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
可能是很好，但必须是主人。我的责任是伸张正义而不受惩罚。
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
永远记住，你不仅有权利成为一个独立的人，你也有义务成为一个独立的人。