self-help
noun
the act of providing for or helping or the ability to provide for or help oneself without assistance from others.
self-helper
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a word derived from
self-help.
Example Sentences
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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 Calvin Thomas
"The figure of a rude, well-meaning self-helper," he said, "in a wild anarchic time, excited my deepest sympathy."
From Character by Samuel Smiles
Of the two brothers he took the sentimentalist for his hero, but made him at the same time a man of action, a man of heroic mould and a self-helper.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
But the man with talent which must be carefully cherished and increased if he would attain distinction by its help—that man is the true self-helper to whom our hearts go out in sympathy.
From Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6) Orators and Reformers by Asa Don Dickinson
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 Albion Winegar Tourgée
