self-helpfulness

On the contrary, one is taught those lessons of self-helpfulness and self-reliance which are so essential to success in life's struggles.

Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Harry A. Lewis

That women make self-helpfulness and family helpfulness fashionable, and every woman use her muscles daily in enough household work to give her a good digestion.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various

Slavery, it is true, was to some extent introduced into New England, but it never suited the genius of the people, never struck deep root, or spread so as to choke the good seed of self-helpfulness.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

It required more than the shock of four years of internecine war to change the solidarity of slavery into a society of organised self-helpfulness.

Frederick Douglass 1906

Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

We must, indeed, allow that the early self-helpfulness of such children is very remarkable, and all the more so because they grow up into men and women so stupid that, according to the theories of all polite economists, they have to have their discontent with their conditions put into their heads by malevolent agitators.

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable

Images from Writings of William Dean Howells William Dean Howells 1878

Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

We must, indeed, allow that the early self-helpfulness of such children is very remarkable, and all the more so because they grow up into men and women so stupid that, according to the theories of all polite economists, they have to have their discontent with their conditions put into their heads by malevolent agitators.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

Slavery, it is true, was to some extent introduced into New England, but it never suited the genius of the people, never struck deep root or spread so as to choke the good seed of self-helpfulness.

American Woman's Home Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853