Samuel Smiles
writer · Scotland · London · 1812–1904
A writer who worked as a doctor, a newspaper editor and a railway company secretary, and gathered into a book the stories of ordinary people who had raised themselves.
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“HEAVEN helps those who help themselves” is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience.
Self-Help, the first sentence
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success.
Self-Help
1 in 100 Billion · The social network of those who came before us