
The Greatest Guides to Achieving Peace & Prosperity
Classic Wisdom on Self-Mastery, Wealth, Ethical Living, and Inner PeaceBy Niccolò Machiavelli, Elizabeth Towne, Elbert Hubbard, James Allen, William Walker Atkinson, Orison Swett Marden, Ralph Waldo Trine, Benjamin Franklin, William Crosbie Hunter, Harry A. Lewis, Thorstein Veblen, Kahlil Gibran, P. T. Barnum, Marcus Aurelius, Wallace D. Wattles, Lao Tzu, Russell Conwell, Henry Harrison Brown, Florence Scovel Shinn, Napoleon Hill, Émile Coué, Charles Fillmore, Charles F. Haanel, B. F. Austin, Robert Collier, George Matthew Adams, Genevieve Behrend, George S. ClasonLength193h 3m
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The Greatest Guides to Achieving Peace & Prosperity assembles a capacious archive of ethical reflection, practical self-culture, economic counsel, spiritual instruction, and social critique. Its selections range from aphoristic wisdom and philosophical meditation to entrepreneurial exhortation, New Thought metaphysics, and narratives of self-making. Classical stoicism and Taoist restraint encounter modern theories of success, making the volume a revealing map of enduring—and often competing—visions of flourishing. Its contributors span antiquity, the American Enlightenment, nineteenth-century reform culture, the New Thought movement, early self-help publishing, and critiques of industrial capitalism. Political realism, transcendental spirituality, positive-thinking disciplines, and observations on wealth and consumption converge in a transhistorical conversation. Together, these voices show that peace and prosperity have been imagined not merely as private possessions, but as questions of character, labor, desire, social responsibility, and one's relation to the wider world. This volume is recommended for readers seeking both an introduction to influential traditions of self-improvement and a critical basis for comparing their assumptions. Its unusual breadth invites close attention to tensions between material ambition and inner composure, discipline and faith, individual advancement and communal ethics. Students and general readers alike will find a rich educational resource in the dialogue these diverse works create.
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GenreSelf-Help, Literary Classics
Length193 hrs 3 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 11, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Chapter 1: The Right To Be Rich
3Chapter 2: There is A Science of Getting Rich
4Chapter 3: Is Opportunity Monopolized?
5Chapter 4: The First Principle in The Science of Getting Rich
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6Chapter 5: Increasing Life
7Chapter 6: How Riches Come to You
8Chapter 7: Gratitude
9Chapter 8: Thinking in the Certain Way
10Chapter 9: How to Use the Will
11Chapter 10: Further Use of the Will
12Chapter 11: Acting in the Certain Way
13Chapter 12: Efficient Action
14Chapter 13: Getting into the Right Business
15Chapter 14: The Impression of Increase
16Chapter 15: The Advancing Man
17Chapter 16: Some Cautions, and Concluding Observations
18Preface
19Chapter I. The Principle of Health
20Chapter II. The Foundations of Faith
21Chapter III. Life and Its Organisms
22Chapter IV. What to Think
23Chapter V. Faith
24Chapter VI. Use of the Will
25Chapter VII. Health from God
26Chapter VIII. Summary of the Mental Actions
27Chapter IX. When to Eat
28Chapter X. What To Eat
29Chapter XI. How to Eat
30Chapter XII. Hunger and Appetites
31Chapter XIII. In a Nutshell
32Chapter XIV. Breathing
33Chapter XV. Sleep
34Chapter XVI. Supplementary Instructions
35Chapter XVII. A Summary of the Science Of Being Well
36Chapter 1
37Chapter 2
38Chapter 3
39Chapter 4
40Chapter 5
41William Walker Atkinson
42The Secret of Success
43The Individual
44Spiritedness
45Latent Powers
46Soul-Force
47The Power of Desire
48The Law of Attraction
49Personal Magnetism
50Attractive Personality