"Unhelped" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the name of truth and righteousness and God's honor! But when something happens to a poor and insignificant man, there the deceitful eye does not find much profit, but cannot help seeing the disfavor of the powerful; therefore he lets the poor man remain unhelped. And who could tell the extent of this vice in Christendom? God says in the lxxxii. Psalm, "How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Judge the matter of the poor and fatherless, demand justice for the poor and needy; deliver the poor ...
— A Treatise on Good Works • Dr. Martin Luther
... German absolutism, this was a dangerous step to take. Technically he would be a deserter. He had reason to fear that he would not be allowed to make his way in the world by his own merit, unharmed and unhelped, but would be dogged by the malice of a despot and perhaps brought back to undergo the fate of Schubart. Worse still was the possibility that his father might be made to suffer from the duke's anger. Nevertheless he resolved ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas
... unhelped we held the fort, our tiny flags unfurled; Some giants laboured in that cloud to lift it from the world. I find again the book we found, I feel the hour that flings Far out of fish-shaped Paumanok some cry of cleaner things; And the Green Carnation withered, as in forest fires ...
— Poems • G.K. Chesterton
... of vested interests, by protecting the poor man against his tyrants, the house-owning shopkeepers under whose greed the dwellings of the poor become nests of filth and pestilence, drunkenness and degradation. Careless, superstitious, imbecile law!—leaving the victims to die unhelped, and then, when the fever and the tyranny has done its work, in thy sanctimonious prudishness, drugging thy respectable conscience by a "searching inquiry" as to how it all happened—lest, forsooth, there should have been "foul play!" Is the knife ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
... habit make. As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse. Thread by thread the strands we twist, Till they bind us, neck and wrist; Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine, ere free we stand; As we builded, stone by stone, We must toil unhelped, alone, Till the wall ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... said Colonel Clark regretfully, "but it does hurt me to see you leave us, unhelped. When do you ...
— The Border Watch - A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand • Joseph A. Altsheler
... on the tree, and well ye may wot indeed That we had some hope from thy good-will amidst that bitter need. Now none had 'scaped the sword-edge in the battle utterly, And so hurt were Agnar and Helgi, that, unhelped, they were like to die; Though for that we deemed them happier: but now when the moon shone bright, And when by a doomed man's deeming 'twas the midmost of the night, Lo, forth from yonder thicket were two mighty wood-wolves come, Far huger wrought to my deeming than the beasts I knew at home: Forthright ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs • William Morris
... the policeman, "I hadn't noticed that, but we'll have a look at it." He looked at Stane, who was eyeing the half-breed with a savage stare, then he said sharply: "Give me a hand, Stane. We can't let the beggar die unhelped, however he may deserve it. He's a godsend anyway, for he can explain your mystery. Besides it's my duty to get him back to the Post, and they wouldn't welcome him dead. Might think I'd plugged ...
— A Mating in the Wilds • Ottwell Binns |
