Help (n.) by halves is a base thing; it is faithfulness to decline to give a deceptive alleviation.
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Help (n.) that can be seen undoes itself: if I see the other's help, I see too that the one helped did not become his own.
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Help (n.) is never lacking, despite the cry that there is none; but the cunning heart, when help comes as what it most dreaded, says "this is no help."
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Help (n.) begins by finding the other where he is and beginning there — the secret of the whole art.
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Help (n.) that is true begins in self-humiliation: servant rather than sovereign, patient rather than ambitious, content to be thought wrong for a while.