Duty: With Illustrations of Courage, Patience and Endurance

by Samuel Smiles

"" With Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance"" is a book written by Samuel Smiles. It is a collection of stories and anecdotes that highlight the importance of fulfilling one's duty, no matter how difficult or challenging it may be. The book is divided into several chapters, each focusing on a particular aspect of duty, such as duty to oneself, duty to others, and duty to society. Throughout the book, Smiles provides examples of individuals who have demonstrated exceptional courage, patience, and endurance in fulfilling their duties, including soldiers, doctors, and social reformers. The book is intended to inspire readers to embrace their own duties and to persevere in the face of adversity. It is a timeless work that continues to resonate with readers today.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Paperback

First published April 1, 2006

About the author

Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904), was a Scottish author and government reformer, who campaigned on a Chartist platform. But he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His masterpiece, 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 "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism", and it raised Smiles to celebrity status almost overnight.

Reviews

[Muhammad Kazim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Man does not live for himself alone. he lives for the food of others as well as himself every one has his duties to perform the richest as well as the poorest

انسان اکیلے اپنے لیے نہیں جیتا۔ وہ دوسروں کے ساتھ ساتھ اپنے کھانے کے لیے بھی جیتا ہے، ہر ایک کی ذمہ داری ہے کہ امیر اور غریب سب کو اپنا فرض ادا کرنا ہے۔

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"Do you wish to be great? " Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown." The best kind of duty is done in secret and without the sight of men. There it does its work devotedly and nobly. It does not follow the routine of worldly-wise morality. It does not advertise itself. It adopts a larger creed and a loftier code, which to be subject to and to obey is to consider every human life, and every human action, in the light of an eternal obligation to the race. Our evil or our careless actions incur debts every day, that humanity, sooner, Hater, must discharge. But how to learn to do one's duty? Can there be any difficulty here? First, there is the pervading, abiding sense of duty to God. Then follow others: Duty to one's family; duty to our neighbors; duty of masters to servants, and of servants to masters; duty to our fellow creatures; duty to the state, which has also its duty to perform to the citizen.

[Ross Heinricy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this many years ago - I need to re-read to give an accurate review

[David Gross · Rating 2 out of 5]

I give up (at about a third of the way in). There's way too much convenient anecdote, baloney, urban legend, contradictory platitude, and conventional quasi-wisdom in this weird fruitcake of a book.