John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5530 Daniel Webster 1782-1852 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5530 |
| AUTHOR: | Daniel Webster (1782–1852) |
| QUOTATION: | A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Argument on the Murder of Captain White, April 6, 1830. Vol. vi. p. 105. |