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To the man who himself strives earnestly, God also lends a
helping hand.
Author: Aeschylus
Source: Persoe (742)
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The foolish ofttimes teach the wise:
I strain too much this string of life, belike,
Meaning to make such music as shall save.
Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth,
My strength is waned now that my need is most;
Would that I had such help as man must have,
For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
Author: Edwin Arnold
Source: Light of Asia (bk. VI, l. 109)
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our
skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Author: Robert Burton
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 195)
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The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Epistle to Augustana (no. 3, st. 3)
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God helps everyone with what is his own.
[Sp., Ayude Dios con lo suyo a cada uno.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, 26)
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Heaven's help is better than early rising.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (vol. III, pt. II, ch. XXXIV)
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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
Into his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: Life
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He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one
who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the
less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
[Lat., Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit:
Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit.]
Author: Quintus Ennius
Source: quoted by Cicero in "De Officiis", 1, 16
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God helps him who strives hard.
Author: Euripides
Source: Eumenidoe
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I
am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by
somebody on whom I have no claim.
Author: William Feather
Source: The Business of Life
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Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale,
And guide my lonely way
To where you taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Vicar of Wakefield--The Hermit (ch. VIII)
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Light is the task when many share the toil.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. XII, l. 493), (Bryant's translation)
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You will swim without cork (without help).
[Lat., Nabis sine cortice.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (bk. I, 4, 120)
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Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: Pig-Pen Pete--Why I Ride Horse-Back
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Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man
struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground
encumbers him with help?
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be
when he thought of you first.
Author: George MacDonald
Source: The Marquis of Lossie (ch. XXII)
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Aid the dawning, tongue and pen:
Aid it, hopes of honest men!
Author: Charles Mackay
Source: Clear the Way
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Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land?
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 264)
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In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Source: The Lord of the Isles (canto I, st. 20)
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But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Cassius at I, ii)
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Now, ye familiar spirits that are culled
Out of the powerful legions under earth,
Help me this once, that France may get the field.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part I (Pucelle at V, iii)
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A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand
Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,
And he that stands upon a slippery place
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pandulph at III, iv)
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God helps those who help themselves.
Author: Algernon Sidney
Source: Discourse Concerning Government (ch. II, pt. XXIII)
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Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow.
Author: Joan Baez
Source: None
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You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Author: Galileo
Source: None
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My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.
Author: Judy Blume
Source: None
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Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.
Author: Hippocrates
Source: None
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The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.
Author: Rona Barrett
Source: None
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Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Author: Jesse Jackson
Source: None
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Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: None
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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Author: Bernice Johnson Reagon
Source: None
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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Author: Elias Canetti
Source: None
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Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Author: John D. Rockefeller
Source: None
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Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
Author: Les Brown
Source: None
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You measure a government by how few people need help.
Author: Patricia Schroeder
Source: None
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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.
Author: Pearl Bailey
Source: None
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God helps those who persevere.
Author: The Koran
Source: None
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Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
Author: Morarji Desai
Source: None
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Author: Aeschylus
Source: None
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