God helps those who help themselves
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Here was the man who believed that necessity never makes a good bargain, that God helps those who help themselves, sent off to perform a spectacular tin-cup routine.
From Time Magazine Archive
There's no place where the Bible says God helps those who help themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
God helps those who help themselves, Mom told Maureen, and so for her own good, she would have to leave the nest and make her way in the world.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
It is a prayer, as it were, to the Will to stand by me, and truly the will is Deus in nobis to those who believe that God helps those who help themselves.
From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Charles Godfrey Leland
"And we say that God helps those who help themselves."
From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer
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