"Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour."
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"We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it."
"Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!"
"Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have."
"Money is not everything. There's Master card & Visa."
"As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave."
"The chess master says nothing, other than moving the silient chess piece."
"One can be a technical master - full of craftsmanship, but not in most senses an artistic master."
"The civil servant is primarily the master of the short-term solution."
"No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another."
"Hee that is a master must serve (another)."
"Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master."
"The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet."
"The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures."
"Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God."
"Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also."
"And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened.""
"In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good."
"You're master of what you've lived, artisan at what you're living, amateur at what's next to live."
"In a mature society, 'civil servant' is semantically equal to 'civil master.'"