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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law.
"Obedience keeps the rules," he would say. "Love knows when to break them."

Anthony de Mello

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

A Man who is Master of Patience, is Master of everything else.

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. That is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature.

Jacob Bronowski

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that... he is going to be a beginner all his life.

R. G. Collingwood

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way — to lie down mistress, and get up master.

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters

E. F. Schumacher

Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.

Thomas Clarkson

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Herbert Marcuse

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

Nicholson Baker

He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

Philip Massinger

Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Gustave Flaubert

The field of knowledge which even the best of us can master is like an island surrounded by a limitless ocean of mystery. And the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Ralph Washington Sockman

Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.

Theodor W. Adorno