Servant Quotes
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I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.
George Washington
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There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the matter--and hide things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you want it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker complained that whenever his maid servant had been in his library, he could not see comfortably to work again for several days.
William Hazlitt
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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
Willa Cather
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What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?
Jane Austen
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Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then.
William Goldman
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When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
Cedric Hardwicke
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'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
William Congreve
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Technology isn't simply addictive - it's addictive because it's a servant to business incentives. There are huge departments in these companies that are devoted to this and staffed by incredibly talented people who have skills that could be put to socially beneficial projects but who are now trying to find out how to make you click and how to maximize your time on a certain site, or encourage teenagers to "friend" more products and constantly engage with them.
Astra Taylor
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[God] wants to teach men and women how to walk together in union and be great-to teach this people how to be bound to him and to those that he sets over them, and to teach his Saints how to reign in the house of Israel as his servants.
Erastus Snow
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O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now,
Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance,
Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.
Rumi
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Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.
Charles G. D. Roberts
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True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to build themselves up. They understand that true greatness is found in the heart of the servant.
Charlie Peacock
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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Nathanael Emmons
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Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.
Stephen Covey
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In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
Norodom Sihamoni
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Always remember, money is a servant; you are the master. Be very careful not to reverse that equation, because many people of high intelligence have already done so, to their great detriments. Unfortunately, many of these poor souls loved money and used people, which violated one of the most basic laws governing true financial success. You should always love people and use money, rather than the reverse!
Bob Proctor
