No man can serve two masters
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"No man can serve two masters; ye cannot serve God and Mammon; where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
Christ knew that one affection rules in man's life when he said, "No man can serve two masters."
From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Orison Swett Marden
No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other.
From Weighed and Wanting Addresses on the Ten Commandments by Dwight Lyman Moody
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
From Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists by M. N. Olmsted
No man can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other.
From The Life of Jesus of Nazareth by Rush Rhees
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