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The Handmaiden of the Sciences. -- Eric Temple Bell
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. -- T. S. Eliot
Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. -- Branch Rickey
Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden. -- Karl Kraus
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not. -- Horace
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity. -- Dorothea Dix
Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition. -- Alain de Botton
Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change. -- Vernor Vinge
Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with. -- Mark Twain
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. -- James Carroll
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery: -- Alexander Cockburn
Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it. -- Ravi Zacharias
Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not. -- Horace
Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God. -- Albert Scott Crossfield
Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine. -- Hannah Hurnard
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. -- W. H. Auden
Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. -- Stanley Fish
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. -- Andrew Wyeth
I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow and do His bidding. Serving Him is my only purpose in this life... -- R.L. LaFevers
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away. -- John Wesley
Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions. -- Learned Hand
In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward and punishment instrumental in persuading man to obey divine commandments. -- Israel Shenker
I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers. -- Joan Larkin

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