A Quote by Jupiter Hammon
Good servants frequently make good masters.
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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.
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.
Words are good servants but bad masters.
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
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.
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.
Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me had a colored woman tied up in his yard to whip when he got home that very Sunday and her mother . . . was in church hearing him preach. He preached, You must obey your masters and be good servants.- That is the greater part of the sermon, when they preach to the colored folks. . . .'
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.
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.
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.
Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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