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Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His primary work, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called…
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culture · British author (1812–1904) · writer · journalist · biographer · philosopher · physician · also Samuel Smiles, Smiles
Born 23 December 1812 · Died 16 April 1904 · Q1195422
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This Home Rule Bill is horrid ... I am quite appalled at that wretched hound, miscalled statesman, throwing the country into a state of turmoil. I cannot understand how so many persons in this part of Britain follow that maniac, just like a flock of sheep. He is simply bursting with self-conceit. Alas! Alas for Liberalism!
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1962· 1 entry
The director of the British Institute of Management, John Marsh, said that young men who entered industry needed a sense of service and duty; they must be "men of character who know how to behave well as in phases of suc
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1905· 1 entry
William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon, praised Smiles: "The Bishop said he had noticed a little tendency in some quarters to disparage the homely energies of life which at one time were so highly thought of
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1904· 4 entries
Died 1904-04-16.
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The manuscript of Conduct was found in his desk and, on the advice of John Murray, was destroyed
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It had sold over a quarter of a million copies
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“Mere political reform will not cure the manifold evils which now afflict society. There requires a social reform, a domestic reform, an individual reform.”
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1897· 1 entry
The Halifax printed the "Misery Leaflet" in which a worn-out house and a well-off house are each illustrated next to each other under the labels "Want of Thrift" and "Thrift"
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1892· 1 entry
William Gladstone returned to power and, as prime minister, introduced his Second Irish Home Rule Bill, Smiles wrote to his son in Ulster: "Don't you rebel
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1877· 1 entry
And now in the collection of the National Gallery, London
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1871· 1 entry
Edited the letters written by his son, Samuel Smiles Jr (born 1852), and sent home during his teenage sea voyage (taken for his health), as well as the log he kept of his journey to Australia and the United States bet
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1866· 1 entry
Smiles became president of the National Provident Institution but left in 1871, after suffering a debilitating stroke
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1862· 2 entries
Vol 1, Early engineers – James Brindley, Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Sir Hugh Myddleton, Capt John Perry
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Called Smiles's Workmen's Earnings, Strikes and Savings "a very remarkable book" and quoted passages from it in a speech
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1861· 1 entry
Smiles published an article from the Quarterly, renamed Workers Earnings, Savings, and Strikes
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1859· 2 entries
Smiles self-published the book, retaining the copyright, while he paid John Murray a ten per cent commission
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Published his book Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct
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1845· 1 entry
Left the Leeds Times and became a secretary for the newly formed Leeds & Thirsk Railway
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1838· 1 entry
Smiles was offered the editorship of the reformist paper, the Leeds Times
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1837· 1 entry
Wrote articles for the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle and the Leeds Times, campaigning for parliamentary reform
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1812· 2 entries
Born 1812-12-23.
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“This Home Rule Bill is horrid ... I am quite appalled at that wretched hound, miscalled statesman, throwing the country into a state of turmoil. I cannot understand how so many persons in this part of Britain follow that maniac, just like a flock of sheep. He is simply bursting with self-conceit. Alas! Alas for Liberalism!”
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