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A little earlier, George Herbert had included "Help thyself, and God will help thee" in his proverb collection, Jacula Prudentum (1651). [12] But it was the English political theorist Algernon Sidney who originated the now familiar wording, "God helps those who help themselves", [13] apparently the first exact rendering of the phrase.
In countries like Latin America where work is valued over school many children only receive half the education they are entitled to. Other reports published by the World Literacy Foundation also found those who cannot read earn lower salaries and illiterate parents' children are more likely to grow up unable to read and be trapped in a cycle. [11]
An illustration of the fable by Walter Crane in Baby's Own Aesop (1887). Hercules and the Wagoner or Hercules and the Carter is a fable credited to Aesop.It is associated with the proverb "God helps those who help themselves", variations on which are found in other ancient Greek authors.
A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.
There’s an inherent lack of closure to suicide. Even when people write notes, they can reveal so little. Suicides often leave loved ones, acquaintances and co-workers to question themselves for the rest of their lives. And in their own grief, they, too, can entertain dangerous thoughts.
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...
The true Sikh cannot turn a blind eye to such evils, thinking that they are "someone else's concern." [ 7 ] It is the duty of the true Sikh to help those who suffer unjustly, by whatever means available, whether that means alerting the police, summoning help, or defending those who cannot defend themselves, even if that means putting oneself in ...
Those fair princesses aren't exempt from violence, as many are banished to towers, trees and forests, where they perform domestic duties until saved by a cunning prince. Although men are also the subjects of execution in the tales, their deaths are disproportionately the result of some sort of legal trialproving their guilt, whereas their ...