Help Yourself.
Fight your own battles, Hoe your own row. Ask no favours of anyone, and you’ll succeed a thousand times better than aay one who i 3 always beseeching some 'one’s influence and patronage. No one will ever help you as you can help yourself, because no one will be so heartily interested in your affairs. The first step will be such a long one, perhaps ; but carving your own way up the mountain you make each one lead to another, and stmd firm while you chop still another out. RJen who have made fortunes are not chose who have had 5000 dols. given to them to start with, but boys who have started fair with a well-earned dollar or two. Men who acquire fame have never been thrust into popularity by puffs begged or paid for, or given in friendly spirit. They have outstretched their own hands and touched the public heart/ Mfeh who win love do their own wooing, and I never knew a man to fail so signally as one who 'his affectionate grandmother to speak a good word for him. Whether you work for fame, for love, for money, or for anything else, work with ycur hands and heart and brain. Say ‘ I will,’ and some day von will con-' quer. Never let any man have it to say, ‘ I Have dragged you up!'’ Too many friends sometimes hurt a man more than none at all.' ' !! ‘ : ' '• * ‘ "" :l
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 914, 6 September 1889, Page 4
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242Help Yourself. New Zealand Mail, Issue 914, 6 September 1889, Page 4
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