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• When we will all see our role in society as servants, we will all light up the sky together like countless stars on a dark night. Don’t think of society as the sky on a full moon night. The moon’s harsh light blinds us to the true and humble work of the stars. But on a moonless night, the true servants shine forth, as though they are connected invisibly in this vast and infinite cosmos.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Stars, Humble, Dark

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• Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.

  Joshua

  Strong, Father, Hands

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• He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Christ, Masters

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• Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Ignored, Spokes

  Max Lucado (2013). “And the Angels Were Silent: The Final Week of Jesus”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Generations, Citizens

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• You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

  Roberto Benigni

  Art, Men, Life Is Beautiful

  "Life Is Beautiful". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

  Joseph Boyden

  Earth, Masters

  Joseph Boyden (2014). “The Orenda: A novel”, p.159, Vintage

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• When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Asks

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I knew the men were probably terrible people who whistled at pretty girls, treated their wives like servants, and voted for Nixon every chance they got, but as far as I was concerned, they beat the hell out of a Volvo-load of liberals for hard work and good times.

  James Crumley

  Girl, Hard Work, Men

  James Crumley (2016). “The Last Good Kiss”, p.40, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Some men seem remarkable to the world in whom neither their wives nor their valets saw anything extraordinary. Few men have been admired by their servants.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Wife, World

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• In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Masters

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• The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sometimes, Masters

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• The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Evil, Helping, Seasons

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• We're all in full-time Christian service. We have different disguises, but the same vocation; to be out and out lovers and servants of the Lord Jesus Christ... no dichotomy exists between ministry and lifestyle.

  Dwight Edwards

  Christian, Jesus, Different

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• No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband; and if not, somebody will receive her as a servant.

  Erastus Snow

  Husband, Kingdoms, Worthy

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• Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Winning, Drunk

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• The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

  Samuel Johnson

  Praise, Virtue, Highest

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.119

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• Every great house is full of haughty servants.

  Juvenal

  House, Haughty

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• Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

  Karl Marx

  Museums, Civilization, Dancer

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Collected works”

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• He that would have his virtue published, is not the servant of virtue, but glory.

  Ben Jonson

  Virtue, Glory

  Ben Jonson, Barry Cornwall (1838). “The Works of B. J. with a Memoir of His Life and Writings, by Barry Cornwall [i.e. B. W. Procter].”, p.754

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• In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Religious, House, Feelings

  Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr

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• It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Justice, Balance

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Lord Jim: Conrad's Collections”, p.191, 谷月社

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• Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people.

  James A. Baldwin

  Home, Odds, White

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• ... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.

  Billy Graham

  Servant Of God, Succeed, Helping

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• It is not the Soviet Union or indeed any other big Powers who need the United Nations for their protection. It is all the others. In this sense, the Organization is first of all their Organization and I deeply believe in the wisdom with which they will be able to use it and guide it. I shall remain in my post during the term of my office as a servant of the Organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Believe, Organization, Long

  Statement to the General Assembly of the United Nations, October 03, 1960.

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