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“Self-help is the best help.” Aesop, “Aesop's Fables”

“second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.” Charles Dickens, “A Tale of Two Cities” - 1859

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.” John F. Kennedy, “Inaugural Address” - 20 January 1961

“To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?” C. S. Lewis, “Mere Christianity” - 1952

“To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

“One of the principles whose application was the source of much hostility was this: It is better for the Government to help a poor man to make a living for his family than to help a rich man make more profit for his company.” Theodore Roosevelt, “Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography” - 1913

“If you’re in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help—the only ones.” John Steinbeck, “The Grapes of Wrath” - 1939

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Be cheerful also, and seek not external help nor the tranquility which others give. A man then must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.” Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations” - c. 170 - 180

“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it.” Ray Bradbury, “Something Wicked This Way Comes” - 1962

“Many are the strange chances of the world, . . . and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Silmarillion” - 1977

“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness – not by each other’s misery.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

“There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.” Jane Austen, “Emma” - 1815

“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?” Louisa May Alcott, “Little Women” - 1868

“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well—you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.” Edith Wharton, “House of Mirth” - 1905

“The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.” Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist” - 1838

“And what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed alone, without exteriour help sustained?” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“She could no longer borrow from the future to help her through the present grief.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“A philanthropy that spends its time and money in helping the world to do more for itself is far better than the sort which merely gives and thus encourages idleness.” Henry Ford, “My Life and Work” - 1922

“If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Haunted” - 2005

“O Gandalf! . . . May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

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