Master Quotes

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You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its… — Charles Dickens
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you… — Bryce Courtenay
I knew I hated him as only a woman can hate a man, as only a slave can hate his master. — Nawal El Saadawi
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all… — Geoffrey Chaucer
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What Iâ€™ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one… — Ayn Rand
What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When I use a word,â€™ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, â€˜it means just what I choose it to mean â€” neither more… — Lewis Carroll
I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. — William Ernest Henley
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods… — Albert Camus
But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills… — Charlotte Bronte
At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say,… — Eric Clapton
Human reason is beautiful and invincible. No bars, no barbed wire, no pulping of books, No sentence of banishment can prevail against it. It puts… — Czeslaw Milosz
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and… — Winston Churchill
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end,"… — Alan Watts
Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night.… — Federico Garcia Lorca
I remember it was with extreme difficulty that I could bring my master to understand the meaning of the word opinion, or how a point… — Jonathan Swift
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely. — Agatha Christie
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is… — Paulo Coelho
I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an… — H. L. Mencken

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