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Possibilities In Spare Moments
Editor’s Note: This excerpt is from Orison Swett Marden’s 1894, Pushing To The Front, but inspired from an amazing AOM post based on the same chapter. On the floor of the gold-working room, in the United States Mint at Philadelphia, there is a wooden lattice-work which is taken up when the floor is swept, and the… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Gustave Flaubert
“Be regular and orderly in your daily affairs that you may be violent and original in your work.” ~Gustave Flaubert Continue reading
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Chesterton, Tertullian and C.S. Lewis on Arguments
Originally posted on Mere Inkling Press: With civil discourse in such short supply today, it may be beneficial to consider some wisdom from the past about disagreeing calmly. If you’re a thoughtful person, and you interact with other rational people, it’s inevitable that you will sometimes disagree. These differences of opinion are not bad things,… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Thomas Jefferson
“Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” ~Thomas Jefferson Continue reading
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The Hobbit Is Turning 80. Here’s What Reviewers Said About It in 1937
The Hobbit Is Turning 80. Here’s What Reviewers Said About It in 1937 Lily Rothman | Time Repost When the first edition of The Hobbit: or, There And Back Again was first published — 80 years ago, on Sept. 21, 1937 — C.S. Lewis famously called the book a “marvellous” classic-in-the-making, and the New York… Continue reading
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Energetic Men
Energetic Men From Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business, 1866 Editor’s Note: Originally seen on Art of Manliness We love upright, energetic men. Pull them this way, and then that way, and the other, and they only bend, but never break. Trip them down, and in a trice they are on their… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Paulo Coelho
“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.“~Paulo Coelho Continue reading
Chase The Kangaroo 