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Creative Quotations from Samuel Smiles for Dec 23

A kind-heartedness provoking collection of Creative Quotations from Samuel Smiles (1812-1904); born on Dec 23. Scottish writer; He was best known for &quot ...

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what does SHC mean in Samuel Smiles self-help (50SHC)?


I haven't a indication. Self-Help? Now, it's the just the C.
| May 19, 2008

I haven't a suggest. Self-Help? Now, it's the just the C.
Mickey D | May 19, 2008



english help plz: i dont understand this paragraph from the book "self-help" by samuel smiles:?

there are many counterfeits of hieroglyph, but the genuine article is difficult to be mistaken. some, knowing its money value, would take its disguise for the purpose of imposing among the unwary. colonel charteris said to a man noted for his honesty,


There are alot of unprincipled people out there. But when you find a honest person, its easy to tell. Some people know this, and would feign to be honest in order to betray that honesty.

The quote means: I could make 10x the cold hard
Steven H | Dec 20, 2008

There are many counterfeits of person : Different types/ ways of the character
But the genuine article is difficult to be in the wrong : It is hard to not understand.
Some, kowing it's money value, would assume its disguise for the resolve
ZoZoZoe | Dec 20, 2008



What would Karl Marx say to Samuel Smiles in response to Smiles' essay, "Self Help"?



I value Karl Marx would have many different views if he viewed today's world. He was an Idealist like many of his contemporaries who were making Utopian Utopian theories. If Marx saw the way people took his utopia and turned it into tyranny, he would
happymrzot | Oct 28, 2006



In your opinion who posited a better solution to the workers problems in 19 century Europe?

In your sentiment who posited a better solution to the workers problems in 19 century Europe? :

Marx and Engels (Communist Manifesto) OR David Ricardo (Iron Law of Wages) and Samuel Smiles (Self-Assistants)???????


Marx and Engels
im back | Oct 05, 2008



what philosophers idea is the weakest?

from the take in of samuel smiles who believes in self-help

david ricardo, adam smith, karl marx and frederick engels, john stuart mill, emma goldman or thomas malthus


I don't deem you can present one single philosopher here whose whole ideas are weak. However, as a principal, you can simply look at a notion of life narrated by any such philosophers as mentioned by you, from the good or bad consequences point of because
| Jan 26, 2009



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Book review: Lives of the Engineers

Reading the biography of Isambard Principality Brunel got me interested in engineers; Rolt, the founder of the Brunel biography, mentioned the biographical writings of Samuel Smiles: in exceptional his “Lives of the Engineers”. This pole is about one part of the full industry: ” The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson ” this number was published in 1879 although the real was written in the years following George Stephenson’s dying, around 1860. The possession describes its contents. George Stephenson, although not the inventor of the first locomotive, was supporting in making it a workable proposition and his son (Robert) continued in his fathers being considered for of exertion, although died fairly unsophisticated.

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Self-Help; Or, Getting by on Smiles

I don’t recognize why I haven’t mentioned Smiles before. Seems to me that his most praiseworthy tome, now decisively out of shape and looked upon in some ways as a old-fashioned keepsake, ought indeed to...

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You are made as Superb Beings with Infinite, Divine Possibilities

“Nonentity and killjoy are not for the man who has seen the God-side of himself, who has been in have a bearing on with divinity. They are for those who have never discovered themselves and their...

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Vivian Aristotle Smiles

"...Honourable purity, like the arts, is acquired by repetition of the corresponding acts.... Again, it is from the same causes and by the same means that every chasteness is both produced and destroyed,...

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