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" Wisdom of the ages : "
Wayne W. Dyer
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BL
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652019
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| Main Entry
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Dyer, Wayne W
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Wisdom of the ages : : a modern master brings eternal truths into everyday life /\ Wayne W. Dyer
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First edition
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xix, 268 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0060192313
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: 9780060192310
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: 9780060929695
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: 0060929693
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| Contents
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Pythagoras and Blaise Pascal : meditation -- Buddha : knowing -- Lao-tzu : Leadership -- Confucius : patience -- Patanjali : inspiration -- Marcus Tullius Cicero : triumph -- Jesus of Nazareth : being childlike -- Epictetus : divinity -- Zen proverb : enlightenment -- Omar Khayyám : the now -- St. Francis of Assisi : prayer -- Jalaluddin Rumi : grief as a blessing -- Leonardo da Vinci : balance -- Michelangelo : hope -- Sir Edward Dyer : mind power -- William Shakespeare : mercy -- John Donne : oneness -- John Milton : time -- Alexander Pope : humility -- John Keats : truth/beauty -- Percy Bysshe Shelley : passion -- William Blake : communication -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : boldness/action -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge : imagination -- William Wordsworth : Nature -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning : romantic love -- Henry David Thoreau : nonconformity -- Chief Seattle, Oren Lyons, Wolf Song, Walking Buffalo, and Luther Standing Bear : reverence for nature
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(Cont.): Ralph Waldo Emerson : judgment -- Ralph Waldo Emerson : self-reliance -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : enthusiasm -- Emily Dickinson : immortality -- Robert Browning : perfection -- Herman Melville : soulcenter -- John Greenleaf Whittier : regrets -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson : fear and risk-taking -- Walt Whitman : physical perfection -- Lewis Carroll : agelessness -- Stephen Crane : kindness -- Algernon Charles Swinburne : laughter -- William James : visualization -- Joyce Kilmer : family and home -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox : solitude -- William Jennings Bryan : mystery -- Kahlil Gibran : work -- Rudyard Kipling : inspiration -- William Butler Yeats : soul love -- Rabindranath Tagore : highest self -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi : privacy -- George Bernard Shaw : self-image -- Paramahansa Yogananda : suffering -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin : love's energy -- e.e. cummings : individuality -- Robert Frost : independence -- Dorothy Parker : appreciation
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(Cont.): Langston Hughes : forgiveness -- Martin Luther King, Jr. : nonviolence -- Ogden Nash : comparison -- Mother Teresa : action/doing -- Wayne W. Dyer : awe
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| Abstract
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The author illuminates the meaning and original context of the most important poems, writings, and phrases of history's greatest minds, and demonstrates how to apply them to daily life
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Conduct of life
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Wisdom
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170
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BJ1581.2.D886 1998
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