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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Master

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Fuller.

There is nothing so good to make a horse fat, as the eye of his master.

Diogenes.

The many still must labor for the one! It is nature’s doom.

Byron.

It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.

Dionysius.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men round to his opinion twenty years later.

Emerson.

I follow him to serve my turn upon him; we cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.

Shakespeare.

We must truly serve those whom we appear to command; we must bear with their imperfections, correct them with gentleness and patience, and lead them in the way to heaven.

Fénelon.

It is not only paying wages, and giving commands, that constitutes a master of a family, but prudence, equal behavior, with a readiness to protect and cherish them, is what entitles a man to that character in their very hearts and sentiments.

Steele.

It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders.

Plato.