A Quote by Aldous Huxley
Words are good servants but bad masters.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters
It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'
It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
Weapons compound man's power to achieve; they amplify the capabilities of both the good man and the bad, and to exactly the same degree, having no will of their own. Thus we must regard them as servants, not masters - and good servants to good men. Without them, man is diminished, and his opportunities to fulfill his destiny are lessened. An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame.
Words are our servants, not our masters. For different purposes, we find it convenient to use words in different senses.
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
With bad laws and good civil servants it's still possible to govern. But with bad civil servants even the best laws can't help.
Good servants frequently make good masters.
A good many causes tend to make good masters and mistresses quite as rare as good servants.... The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not, of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks, or in any way really raise them above the servants they employ, who are quite aware of this fact, and that the possession of wealth is literally the only superiority their employers have over them.
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
I entreat all artisans faithfully to follow their craft and take delight in it. I entreat all servants to be faithful servants of their masters and mistresses.
Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If the latter they intoxicate the brain and lead into swamps of thought where there is no solid footing. Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal, the abuse of words.
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.
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