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• The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

  J. H. Plumb

  Past, History, Authority

  J.H. Plumb (1989). “The Death of the Past”, p.40, Springer

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• Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts

  Plutarch

  Mean, Men, Hands

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• Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Kindness, Philosophy, Grateful

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• All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Science, Religion

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• Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

  Karl Kraus

  Mother, Speech

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• The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Enemy, Atheism, Church

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• Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

  William Everson

  Art, Healing, Remedy

  William Everson (1980). “Earth Poetry: Selected Essays & Interviews of William Everson, 1950/1977”

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• Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self.

  William Shakespeare

  Women, Self, Niceness

  William Shakespeare (1830). “The Beauties of Shakespeare, Selected from the Most Correct Editions of His Works: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.190

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• Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Retribution, Nemesis

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• Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship).
  [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Vices, Flattery

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• The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Art, Drama, Light

  Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87

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• Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things.

  James Howell

  Nature, Advice, Doe

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• Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.

  Bram Stoker

  Sweet, Art, Pain

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• By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

  John Dryden

  Art, Nature, Tails

  'Annus Mirabilis' (1667) st. 155

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• The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Puritan, Harvard

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• A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.

  Thomas Brooks

  Truth, Humility, Joy

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.108

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• Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

  Francois Delsarte

  Art, Science, Science And Religion

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• Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

  James A. Garfield

  Ignorance, Dark, Light

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.453, Best Books on

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• I look upon statistics as the handmaid of medicine, but on that very account I hold that it befits medicine to treat her handmaid with proper respect, and not to prostitute her services for controversial or personal purposes.

  Karl Pearson

  Husband, Science, Medicine

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• Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Education, Citizenship, Should

  Calvin Coolidge (1925). “America's Need for Education: And Other Educational Addresses”

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• Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Vices, Flattery

  De Amicitia, XXIV,

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• Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.

  Andre Malraux

  Reality, Criticism, Painting

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• I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

  Horace Mann

  Philosophy, Phrenology, Looks

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• I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Interesting, Fiction

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?

  William Buckland

  God, Science, Light

  William Buckland (1836). “Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.593

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