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Hunger is the handmaid of genius -- Mark Twain
Labor is the handmaid of religion. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Nemesis is one of God's handmaids. -- William Rounseville Alger
The past has always been the handmaid of authority. -- J. H. Plumb
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion. -- Francis Bacon
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self. -- William Shakespeare
A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy. -- Thomas Brooks
His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth. -- George R. R. Martin
Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral. -- William Everson
Good luck is the willing handmaid of a upright and energetic character, and conscientious observance of duty. -- James Russell Lowell
Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed (from friendship). [Lat., Assentatio, vitiorum adjutrix, procul amoveatur.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness. -- Thomas Bulfinch
Nature, the handmaid of God Almighty, does nothing but with good advice, if we make research into the true reason of things. -- James Howell
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. -- Horace Mann
The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated. -- Margaret Atwood
By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. -- John Dryden
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her. -- Robert Aris Willmott
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting. -- Conor Oberst
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. -- Margaret Atwood
Useful knowledge, practical kindness, and beneficent laws -- these are not the Gospel; but, like philosophy, they are, or may be, its handmaids. They may make its task smooth and grateful; they may associate themselves with its victories, or they may prepare its way. -- Henry Parry Liddon
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just what it does cruelly. -- George William Curtis
Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts -- Plutarch
The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting. This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology. She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel! -- Leonard Ravenhill
Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole. -- Bram Stoker
Science and art are the handmaids of religion. -- Francois Delsarte

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