A Quote by Nathanael Emmons

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Nathanael Emmons

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Nathanael Emmons
April 20, 1745 - September 23, 1840

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Roger L'Estrange

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

Jimmy Evans

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

Baltasar Gracian

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Seneca the Younger

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.

Jan Hus

Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.

Francis Bacon

Both my best and my worst habit is that I'm very impulsive.

Tove Lo

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

Joseph Boyden

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Dallas Willard

Words are good servants but bad masters.

Aldous Huxley

We should be servants of Jesus not masters of people

George O. Wood

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Charles Hermite

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.