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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

To comprehend the Wisdom of this Injunction the better, and explain the Duty before us, it should be considered, that Government is the only Means by which human Happiness can be attained.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

IT may be proper to observe further, that this Duty is not confined to those who live under any one particular Form of Government: It extends to the Subjects of all regular States, lawfully established.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

THIS Duty implies that we should affectionately interest ourselves in whatever concerns the Honour, the Fame and Security of our Sovereign and his Government.