Master Quotes
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
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The Master doesn't seek fulfillment. For only those who are not full are able to be used which brings the feeling of completeness.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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All I want to think about for a couple of months is art. The rest is a waste of time and emotion. So here’s the lovely Annunciation by Antonello de Messina I saw in Syracuse. Antonello was the first great Italian master of oil paints, because Sicily was too damp for fresco.
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My master lit a candle in the long midwinter's past Now summer comes and all the fields are burning black and fast.
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When people complain of the decay of manners they have in mind not the impudent abbreviations of the crowd, but the decline in bowing and scraping and in speaking of one's employer as "the master." What the rich mean by the good manners of the poor is usually not civility, but servility.
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It's the horsey-shape piece that moves in an L shape. It's what makes chess complicated, and why stupid people can't play chess. Go play checkers! Knights are the first piece you look at. They elevate the game. No chess master wants to lose her knights.
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If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.
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The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.
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It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE.
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Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
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It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.
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The Master gives himself up to whatever the moment brings. He knows that he is going to die, and her has nothing left to hold on to: no illusions in his mind, no resistances in his body. He doesn't think about his actions; they flow from the core of his being. He holds nothing back from life; therefore he is ready for death, as a man is ready for sleep after a good day's work.
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Sometimes we woke up and feel like a Guitar Master, sometimes we woke up and feel like a complete fool. but that's the fun part of learning guitar.
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A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
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The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
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The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.
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No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
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The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.
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Reason in the western tradition has been constructed as the privileged domain of the master, who has conceived nature as a wife or subordinate other encompassing and representing the sphere of materiality, subsistence and the feminine which the master has split off and constructed as beneath him.
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It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.
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Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
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I'm the master of the wicket!
