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Wisdom of the ages

by Dyer, Wayne W.
Edition statement:1st ed. Published by : HarperCollins Publishers (New York, NY) Physical details: xix, 268 p. 25 cm. ISBN:0060192313.
Subject(s): Conduct of life | Wisdom | Intellect
Year: 1998
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Contents:
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. (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. (Cont.): Langston Hughes : forgiveness
Martin Luther King, Jr. : nonviolence
Ogden Nash : comparison
Mother Teresa : action/doing
Wayne W. Dyer : awe

Wisdom of ages: a modern master brings eternal truths into everyday life

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