do one's duty

Example Sentences

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"I felt it was my duty to come. I certainly felt it would be an unpleasant experience, but that's not a good enough reason not to do one's duty."

From BBC • Dec. 5, 2013

It requires a bold heart to be ready to do one's duty, unmoved by the sneers of others.

From The Child at Home The Principles of Filial Duty, Familiarly Illustrated by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

In my mind it has always stood as characteristic of that wonderful national resolution to do one's duty, and to make the least possible fuss about it.

From My Home in the Field of Honor by Huard, Frances Wilson

It was more honorable to ride at races, to play high stakes, and drain three bottles at dinner, than to study and to do one's duty?

From In the Valley by Frederic, Harold

To do one's duty because one expects to reap advantage is not to have done one's duty.

From An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant by Moore, Edward Caldwell