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El Deber
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El alcance de este libro revela el aliento de la austera voz del deber; los cielos la buscan con nosotros, s�lo el infierno la teme.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
El alcance de este libro revela el aliento de la austera voz del deber; los cielos la buscan con nosotros, s�lo el infierno la teme.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
444 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2006
28 people want to read
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Samuel Smiles
893 books60 followersSamuel 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.
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October 21, 2022
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.
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.
March 14, 2018
Read this many years ago - I need to re-read to give an accurate review
October 8, 2012
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.
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