“Small projects need much more help than great ones”
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“Small projects need much more help than great ones”
“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
“Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose”
“But what is past my help is past my care”
“Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members”
“I will hold your hand but as long as all may, or so very little longer!”
“All men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good”
“The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it”
“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself”
“Philosophy is life's dry-nurse, who can take care of us -- but not suckle us”
“An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people- it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery”
“When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.”
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think”
“Don't find fault, find a remedy”
“The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.”