Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Self-Help, Family & Relationships

Authors: Samuel Smiles In Year : 1888

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Happy Homes and the Hearts that Make Them: Or Thrifty People and why They Thrive

Preface
Chapter 1: The Art of Living; or Making the Most of Life
Chapter 2: Healthy Homes
Chapter 3: Influence of Character
Chapter 4: Home Power
Chapter 5: Companionship and Example
Chapter 6: Work
Chapter 7: Helping One's Self
Chapter 8: Leaders of Industry - Inventors and Producers
Chapter 9: Application and Perserverance
Chapter 10: Helps and Opportunities - Scientific Pursuits
Chapter 11: Energy and Will
Chapter 12: Self-culture -- Facilities and Difficulties
Chapter 13: Workers in Art
Chapter 14: Men of Business
Chapter 15: Money - Its Use and Abuse
Chapter 16: Habits of Thrift
Chapter 17: Methods of Economy
Chapter 18: Courage
Chapter 19: Self-control
Chapter 20: Duty -- Truthfulness
Chapter 21: Temper
Chapter 22: Manner -- Art
Chapter 23: Companionship of Books
Chapter 24: Companionship in Marriage
Chapter 25: Examples -- Models
Chapter 26: Character -- The True Gentleman
Chapter 27: The Discipline of Experience

Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer, but he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. He wrote popular articles and books on his theories; ways people could help themselves overcome their problems. His book "Self-Help" brought him to celebrity status: almost overnight, he became a leading pundit and much-consulted guru. "Happy Homes" focuses on ways and reasons to be thrifty, how to find happiness in life, the opposite sex and work. What's particularly striking about this book is its clear-headed 19th Century advice for "improvement" and cultural stability, etc., combined with the entrenched and historic sexism of a paternalistic society. “Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.”― Samuel Smiles, Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them - Summary by John Greenman and Wikipedia