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God helps them that help themselves.
-Proverb
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God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
-Aeschylus
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
-Thomas Aquinas
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
-Natalie Clifford Barney
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The best way to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
-Charles Austin Beard
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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
-David Ben-Gurion
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We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
-John Milton Cage
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
-Willa Cather
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Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.
-Demosthenes
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Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
-John Donne
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The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no one subsists by himself alone.
-Owen Felltham
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I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
-Benjamin Franklin
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There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self.
-John Gay
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In the word of no master am I bound to believe.
-Horace
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
-Henrik Ibsen
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It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.
-Mahalia Jackson
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If it is to be, it is up to me.
-William H. Johnsen
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.
-June Jordan
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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman -- they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
-John Keats
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Books about Independence
