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Like a self-helper by Norman Vincent Peale, The Way of a Pilgrim is crammed with appropriate case histories �a social gamut of unhappy people whose lives have been changed by the practice of interior prayer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where social rank was measured by the length of the serving train, it was not strange that the Northern self-helper should be despised and his complacent assumption of equal gentility scorned.

From Bricks Without Straw by Tourgée, Albion Winegar

In making his hero a defiant self-helper and sending him with sword in hand against the minions of the established order, Schiller was obviously influenced by the example of 'Götz von Berlichingen'.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

"The figure of a rude, well-meaning self-helper," he said, "in a wild anarchic time, excited my deepest sympathy."

From Character by Smiles, Samuel

The self-helper must be self-reliant; the measure of his self-help is always proportioned to the measure of his self-reliance.

From Increasing Personal Efficiency by Conwell, Russell H.