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  • All good moral philosophy is but an handmaid to religion.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.22, section14.

  • Divitiae bona ancilla, pessima domina. Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.

    - Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
      De Dignitiate et  Augmentis Scientiarum,  Antitheta no.6 (translated by Gilbert  Watts,1640).

  • And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke1:38.

  • 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
      Annus Mirabilis, stanza155.

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