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• In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Freedom, Political Will, Order

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Psychics, Gifts Of The Spirit, Faithful Servants

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• You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Crowns, Want, Thorns

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• Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.

  Tobias Wolff

  Writing, Cost, Mythology

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• Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

  Chanakya

  Relationship, Adversity, Wife

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• To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

  Sidney Hook

  Public Opinion, Interest, Opinion

  Sidney Hook (1965). “Political Power and Personal Freedom: Critical Studies in Democracy, Communism, and Civil Rights”

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• ... the People of God have to elect public servants who know the difference between serving the public and killing the public, and that those who can't tell the difference don't belong in public office.

  Frank Pavone

  Differences, People, Office

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• To have a healthy and thriving business, there must be healthy relationships with the C.E.O.S. in the organization and I'm not referring to the Chief Executive Offficers. I am talking about the Customers, the Employees, the Owner (or stockholders), and the Suppliers.

  James Hunter

  Talking, Organization, Healthy

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• The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

  Jimmy Evans

  Two, World, Best Marriage

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• Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greatness, Men, Too Much

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.373

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• The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

  Ida B. Wells

  Reading, Men, Doors

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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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

  Book, Order, Library

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• The press, important as is its office, is but the servant of the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, according to the character of those who direct it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.

  William C. Bryant

  Character, Evil, Office

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• Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Opportunity, Selfishness, Wicked

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Noble, Spirit, Duty

  Frederick William Robertson (1863). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton”, p.253, Boston : Fields, Osgood

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• Every day His servants are dying modestly and peacefully--not a word of victory on their lips; but Christ's deep triumph in their hearts--watching the slow progress of their own decay, and yet so far emancipated from personal anxiety that they are still able to think and plan for others, not knowing that they are doing any great thing. They die, and the world hears nothing of them; and yet theirs was the completest victory. They came to the battle field, the field to which they had been looking forward all their lives, and the enemy was not to be found. There was no foe to fight with.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Death, Heart, Fighting

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.585

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• Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams.

  James Russell Lowell

  Dream, Giving, Imagination

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets Lessing: Rousseau”

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• It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

  Joseph Addison

  Sex, Men, Talking

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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.

  Plato

  Men, Law, Acting

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Science, Answers, Problem

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.95, Vintage

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• I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

  William Shenstone

  Silly, Character, People

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.107

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• The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.

  Juvenal

  Tongue, Worst

  Juvenal, Persius (1848). “The Satires of Juvenal and Persius Literally Translated from the Most Approved Texts by W. Wallace”, p.54

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• A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

  George Herbert

  Masters, Straws

  George Herbert (1861). “The poetical works of George Herbert and Reginald Heber: With memoirs. Eight engravings on steel”, p.274

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• A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.

  George Herbert

  Sleepy, Masters

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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• Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1856). “The Works of George Herbert, in Prose and Verse: Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. With Illustrations”, p.334

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