Service

Service

Service is work one does for others. Service in exchange for money is known as trade.

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• We are his,
  To serve him nobly in the common cause,
  True to the death, but not to be his slaves.
  • William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book V, line 340.

• Servant of God, well done.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book VI, line 29.

• Master, go on, and I will follow thee,
  To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.
  • William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act II, scene 3, line 69.

• I am an ass, indeed, you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating.
  • William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act IV, scene 4, line 29.

• Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
  I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age
  Have left me naked to mine enemies.
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (1613), Act III, scene 2, line 455.

• We cannot all be masters, nor all masters cannot be truly followed.
  • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 1, line 43.

• My heart is ever at your service.
  • William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act I, scene 2, line 76.

• The swallow follows not summer more willing than we your lordship.
  • William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens (date uncertain, published 1623), Act III, scene 6, line 31.

• You know that love
  Will creep in service where it cannot go.
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act IV, scene 2, line 19.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 699.

• If I had always served God as I have served you, Madam, I should not have a great account to render at my death.
  • Francis Bacon, Life and Times of Francis the First, Volume I, p. 46, of ed. 2.

• And Master Kingston, this I will say—had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
  • Pierre de Bourdeille (Brantome), quoting Thomas Cromwell to his keeper.

• When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,—no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, Of Gifts.

• Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.
  • Firdusi.

• Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?
  • II Kings, VIII. 13.

• "Sidney Godolphin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way."
  • Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, History of England, Volume I, p. 265. Cabinet Ed. Phrase used later to describe a good valet

• Who seeks for aid
  Must show how service sought can be repaid.
  • Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Siege of Constantinople.

• They also serve who only stand and wait.
  • John Milton, Sonnet, On his Blindness.

• They serve God well,
  Who serve his creatures.
  • Mrs. Norton, The Lady of La Garaye, Conclusion, line 9.

• God curse Moawiyah. If I had served God so well as I have served him, he would never have damned me to all eternity.
  • Found in Ockley's History of the Saracens. An. Hegira 54, A. D. 673.

• Domini pudet non servitutis.
  • I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
  • Seneca, Troades, 989.

• Small service is true service while it lasts:
  Of humblest friends, bright Creature! scorn not one;
  The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
  Protects the lingering dew drop from the Sun.
  • William Wordsworth, To a Child, Written in Her Album.

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"Doing well by doing good." -Tom Lehrer.

"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." -Martin Luther King Jr.

"He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own" - Confucius.

"If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain." -Emily Dickinson.

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke.

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth while" -Albert Einstein.

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves." -James M. Barrie.

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi.