Quotes with servant

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  • James Fenimore Cooper It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Theodore Parker It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
    Theodore Parker
    American minister (1810 - 1860)
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  • P. T. Barnum Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Francis Bacon Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ada Leverson She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.
    Tenterhooks (1912)
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • Max De Pree The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
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  • William Blake The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Norman Vincent Peale The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
    Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer and poet (1860 - 1935)
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  • Annie Dillard The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Djuna Barnes We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
    Djuna Barnes
    American writer and artist (1892 - 1982)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • William Shakespeare Every good servant does not all commands.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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