Self-Help (Part 1)

Samuel Smiles

⏱ 8 minPractical philosophy

Part 1 of 2. The Victorian bestseller that coined 'self-help.' Its founding creed, that Heaven helps those who help themselves, proved through lives of dogged perseverance, from James Watt to the potter Palissy, who burned his own furniture to master a secret glaze.

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