1. Other Archival Holdings -Samuel Smiles Special Collections. Smiles, Samuel, 18121904. Letters to John Hartree and Janet http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/SpecColl/smiles.htm

Special Collections SMILES, SAMUEL, 1812-1904. 1880 April 2 - 1904 April 25. 7 items (23 p. on 7 leaves). Scottish author and social reformer. Biographical information available in The dictionary of national biography, 1901-1911, p. 322-325. Holograph, signed. Donated by Timothy Travers in 1987. MsC 158 Last update: March 1998

2. Samuel Smiles - Short Biography Smiles, Samuel (18121904), son of a Haddington shopkeeper, had a mobile and varied career as surgeon, newspaper editor, http://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~sharp/biographical/samuel-smiles.html

The following was taken from page 912 of the fifth edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature , edited by Margaret Drabble, published 1985 by the Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-866130-4) SMILES, Samuel (1812-1904), son of a Haddington shopkeeper, had a mobile and varied career as surgeon, newspaper editor, secretary for a railway company, etc., and devoted his leisure to the advocacy of political and social reform, on the lines of the Manchester School, and to the biography of industrial leaders and humble self-taught students. He published a Life of George Stephenson Lives of the Engineers Josiah Wedgwood (1884), and many similar works, but is now principally remembered for his immensely successful Self-help (1859), which was translated into many languages. It preached industry, thrift and self-improvement, and attacked 'over-government'; it has been much mocked as a work symbolising the ethics and aspirations of mid-19th-cent. bourgeois individualism. The titles of other works on similar themes ( Character Thrift Duty , 1880) are self-explanatory.

3. Modern History Sourcebook: Samuel Smiles: Self Help, 1882 Samuel Smiles (18121904), Self-Help (London John Murray, 1882), pp. v, 1-3 5-7. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1882smiles.html

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Samuel Smiles: Self Help, 1882 The object of the book briefly is, to re-inculcate these old-fashioned but wholesome lessons-which perhaps cannot be too often urged, that youth must work in order to enjoy,-that nothing creditable can be accomplished without application and diligence,-that the student must not be daunted by difficulties, but conquer them by patience and perseverance,-and that, above all, he must seek elevation of character, without which capacity is worthless and worldly success is naught. If the author has not succeeded in illustrating these lessons, he can only say that he has failed in his object. "Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is donefor men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless. The Government of a nation itself is usually found to be but the reflex of the individuals composing it. The Government that is ahead of the people will inevitably be dragged down to their level, as the Government that is behind them will in the long run be dragged up. In the order of nature, the collective character of a nation will as surely find its befitting results in its law and government, as water finds its own level. The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly. Indeed all experience serves to prove that the worth strength of a State depend far less upon the form of its institut,011S than upon the character of its men. For the nation is only an aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of the personal improvement of the men, women, and children of whom society is composed.

4. Samuel Smiles, Social Reformer Samuel Smiles. (18121904). Social reformer. Author of one of the inspirational Bibles of Victorian society, Self-Help, http://www.visitdunkeld.com/smiles.htm

Dunkeld Home Page Tour Scotland on a relaxing, small group vacation of my homeland. Click here for the Best Scottish Tours ! Samuel Smiles Social reformer Author of one of the inspirational Bibles of Victorian society, Self-Help, a collection of biographies of contemporary men of achievement. A quarter of a million copies were sold. Quick Links to: Scottish Books Scottish Music Scottish Song Scottish Videos ... Dunkeld Homepage

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CQ Home Search CQ Random CQ Search eLibrary ... Bemorecreative Creative Quotations from . . . Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) born on Dec 23 Scottish author. He was best known for "Self-Help," 1859 which enshrined the Victorian values associated with the "gospel of work." Previous Set of Quotes Random Quotes Next Set of Quotes Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. 'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement.

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8. Project Gutenberg Author Record Project Gutenberg Author record. Smiles, Samuel, 18121904. Titles.Character. Industrial Biography, Iron Workers And Tool Makers. Jasmin http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/smiles__samuel__1812-1904.html

Project Gutenberg Author record Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 Titles Character Industrial Biography, Iron Workers And Tool Makers Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Life Of Thomas Telford, The; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain ... Self Help; Conduct and Perseverance To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

9. Project Gutenberg Bibliographic Record Project Gutenberg Bibliographic Record. Title Jasmin Barber, Poet, Philanthropist.Author Smiles, Samuel, 18121904. Notes. Language English. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/titles/jasmin__barber__poet.html

Project Gutenberg Bibliographic Record Title: Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist Author: Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 Notes Language: English Release Date: Mar 1997 File(s): Title Format Directory Filename Size Etext number Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist (ASCII) jasmn10.txt 481 KB Select (click on) a Title to view. Click the Author name above for more eBooks by that author To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

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CQ Home Search CQ Random CQ Search eLibrary ... Bemorecreative Creative Quotations from . . . Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) born on Dec 23 Scottish author. He was best known for "Self-Help," 1859 which enshrined the Victorian values associated with the "gospel of work." Previous Set of Quotes Random Quotes Next Set of Quotes Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. 'Where there is a will there is a way,' is an old and true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement.

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School Test Your Quotational Quotient! How many of the following school quotes can you correctly match to their author? For each quotation, click the person you think said it. This takes you to the Creative Quotation's page for that person. If you see the quotation on that page, then you're correct! If you don't see the quotation enjoy the browsing, then try again. Keep track of the number of "correct the first time" answers, then check your Quotational Quotent (QQ) at the end of this page. 1) Who said . . . But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) Scottish author Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) Russian Communist leader Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-1978) U.S. politician, pharmacist 2) Who said . . . We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We/ Jazz June. We Die soon. Jean Toomer (1894-1967) U.S. author, poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-) U.S. poet Robert Bly (1926-) U.S. poet 3) Who said . . . We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20? Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) U.S. economist and social scientist

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16. BBC - History - Society And Culture - Welfare - Samuel Smiles The interactive History Site of BBC Online Samuel Smiles. 18121904. The political reformer and moralist was born in Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, and was http://db.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/welfare/smiles_samuel.shtml

17. LitSearch: An Online Literary Database Jasmin Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles, Samuel (18121904).Copyright 2001 Keith Ito. All Rights Reserved. Admin Control Panel. http://daily.stanford.edu/litsearch/servlet/DescribeWork?work=858

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20. EBooks (e-Books, EBook): Digital Book Index: Search By Author Smiles, Samuel, 18121904, Lives of Boulton Watt. Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904,The life of George Rob. Stephenson; hist. of the invention intro. http://www.digitalbookindex.com/_search/search002a.asp?AUTHOR=Smiles, Samu

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