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Read & copy the quotation
“requires earnest purpose, honest self-devotion, and hard work.”
- Source
- Thrift
- Date
- 1875
Meaning of “requires earnest purpose, honest self-devotion, and hard work.”
Smiles argues that social reform requires committed people and sustained effort rather than money alone, joining honesty, purpose and work in one historical reform ethic.
Where does it come from?
Thrift, Chapter XIV, “Riches and Charity,” Project Gutenberg #14418. Smiles argues that money alone cannot reform conduct and says change from intemperance, improvidence and irreligion requires earnest purpose, self-devotion and hard work; that nineteenth-century reform context is preserved.
