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Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance

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Personal Growth & Self-Development

Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance

Samuel Smiles

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The most quoted success proverb in the language opens the 1859 original: help yourself, and help arrives. Smiles illustrates application and perseverance through hundreds of lives, Palissy the potter, Wedgwood, the inventors and leaders of industry who rose by energy alone. The volume that named an entire genre. Self-improvement's founding document, still pulling its weight.

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18 chapters

  1. 1SELF HELP WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OF CONDUCT AND PERSEVERANCE.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3INTRODUCTION TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5CHAPTER I. Self-Help—National and Individual.
  6. 6CHAPTER II. Leaders of Industry—Inventors and Producers.
  7. 7CHAPTER III. The Great Potters—Palissy, Böttgher, Wedgwood.
  8. 8CHAPTER IV. Application and Perseverance.
  9. 9CHAPTER V. Helps and Opportunities—Scientific Pursuits.
  10. 10CHAPTER VI. Workers in Art.
  11. 11CHAPTER VII. Industry and the Peerage.
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII. Energy and Courage.
  13. 13CHAPTER IX. Men of Business.
  14. 14CHAPTER X. Money—Its Use and Abuse.
  15. 15CHAPTER XI. Self-Culture—Facilities and Difficulties.
  16. 16CHAPTER XII. Example—Models.
  17. 17CHAPTER XIII. Character—The True Gentleman.
  18. 18FOOTNOTES
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