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If a man stumbles, it is a good thing to help him to his feet. Every one of us needs a helping hand now and then.

If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.

We knew that if one man could rise above the misery then others could as well.

You can’t change the world alone — you will need some help — and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the good will of strangers and a strong coxswain to guide them.

Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy, and we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards.

The spectacle of effort is what awakens and sustains our own effort.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

There were times when his optimism appeared forced and formal though I believe it was not really so: there were times when I have almost hated him for his infernal cheerfulness.

The secret of calm cheerfulness is kindliness; no person can be consistently cheerful and calm who does not consistently think kind thoughts.

The prime reason for social intercourse is mutual need; and as soon as that is satisfied, boredom drives people together once more.

the need of society drives the human porcupines together--only to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature

For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

There is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

The welfare of the weakest and the welfare of the most powerful are inseparably bound together.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

The brain of man is the social organ, the organ of communication. Through it flows the current of thought, whereby we are enabled to work together.

Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.

If we work together, there is nothing we cannot do and no dream we cannot achieve.

All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse; not studied as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a charm.

How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.

It is not kind in you to desire an increase of my friendship; that is to doubt it is not as great already as it can be, than which you cannot do me a greater injury.

a real kindness is so far beyond all compliment, that it never appears more than when there is least of t'other mingled with it

A boy of spirit may acquire a previous and practical experience of the world; and his playfellows may be the future friends of his heart or his interest.