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
But the pitiless reply still is that God helps those who help themselves.
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
Or, in other words, he saw clearly the truth of the proverb: "God helps those who help themselves."
From The Story of Garfield Farm-boy, Soldier, and President by William G. Rutherford
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