"I do not need a thousand souls, I only need one, which is my master's."
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"I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude."
"The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others."
"The arts are the servant; wisdom its master."
"Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece."
"Be the master of your will but the servant of your conscience."
"My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless."
"That which one fears becomes one's master."
"The thing about fate is, are you the master of your fate, or are the stars?"
"Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?"
"Build up virtue, and you master all."
"But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it."
"This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone."
"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
"If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all."
"If the traveler cannot find master or friend to go with him, let him travel alone rather than with a fool for company."
"In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master."
"God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited."
"None is borne Master."
"One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants. [One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']"