Answers questions on Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays: First Series, including Self-Reliance, Compensation and Friendship, quoting the 1841 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the essay.
“## SELF-RELIANCE I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in…”
Answers questions on Atkinson's The Psychology of Salesmanship: the stages of a sale, approaching a prospect, attention, interest and objections, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“…ves a sense of self-help, self-respect, self-reliance, dignity, complacency, and independence. Carried to an extreme it manifests as hauteur, superciliousness, …”
Answers questions on Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy: Fortune, true happiness, evil, providence and free will, quoting H. R. James's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the book.
Answers questions on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil: the prejudices of philosophers, master and slave morality and the free spirit, quoting Helen Zimmern's translation from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“41. One must subject oneself to one's own tests that one is destined for independence and command, and do so at the right time. One must not avoid one's tests, …”
Answers questions on Samuel Smiles's Thrift: saving, savings banks, debt, economy at home and independence, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“"If any one intends to improve his condition," said the late William Felkin, Mayor of Nottingham, himself originally a working man, "he must earn all he can, sp…”
Answers questions on Samuel Smiles's Self-Help: perseverance, energy, character and the lives of self-made people, quoting the 1859 text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“Decision and promptitude are as requisite in self-culture as in business. The growth of these qualities may be encouraged by accustoming young people to rely up…”
Answers questions on Orison Swett Marden's Pushing to the Front: opportunity, perseverance, the value of time and character in a career, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“One must have that determination which never looks back and which knows no defeat; that resolution which burns all bridges behind it and is willing to risk ever…”
Answers questions on John Stuart Mill's On Liberty: the harm principle, freedom of thought and the limits of authority, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the chapter.
“## CHAPTER III. OF INDIVIDUALITY, AS ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF WELL-BEING.”
Answers questions on P. T. Barnum's The Art of Money Getting: golden rules on choosing a vocation, avoiding debt, persevering and advertising, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the rule.
“…ired;" naturally lazy and possessing no self-reliance and no perseverance. But they can cultivate these qualities, as Davy Crockett said: "This thing remember, …”
Answers questions on Thomas Paine's Common Sense, the 1776 pamphlet arguing for American independence, quoting the text from Project Gutenberg (public domain) and naming the section.
“162 Should we neglect the present favorable and inviting period, and an Independance be hereafter effected by any other means, we must charge the consequence to…”