Samuel Smiles published Self-Help in 1859 ... Everywhere it is what is called force of character and the sustaining power of all great action. Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession ...

But it also saw the emergence of another enduring classic: “Self-Help”, by Samuel Smiles ... what he called “pushing character”. The sort of people Smiles held up as models—the potter ...

The problem the 20th century had with Samuel Smiles’s Self-Help was that the conjunction of ... In his emphasis on the need to ‘elevate the character and expand the spiritual nature’ by means of ...

ON Saturday, December 4, a bronze tablet to the memory of Samuel Smiles was unveiled ... In it and in "Character and Duty" Dr. Smiles showed the British people to the world as very virile and ...

The five-volume "Lives of the Engineers" by Samuel Smiles, founder of the self-help ... George and Robert Stephenson) to reveal the character of greatness: mechanical aptitude, frugality ...