There are particular characteristics one can have, and particular things one can do, that will make failure in life certain.

The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, published in 1919, is one of Baroness Orczy's sequels to The Scarlet Pimpernel.

H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines tells of a group of adventurers journeying into unexplored Africa in order to find the missing brother of one of the party.

A collection of US inauguration speeches from Washington to Obama.

One world's richest and best-known people in his day, Henry Ford was the founder of Ford Motor Company and a pioneering innovator of mass production.

The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics.

The Critique of Pure Reason is one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy, and the first of Kant's three Critiques.

Nicholas Nickleby is left responsible for his mother and sister when his father dies.

The Woman in White is credited with being the first of the sensation novels, and one of the finest examples of the genre.

The School for Husbands (L'École des maris) is a work by Molière (the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright who is often considered to be one of Western literature's great masters of comedy.

Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome.

Heidi is a novel for children written in 1880 which remains one of the most well-known pieces of Swiss literature.

Patriotism, or love of country, is one of the tests of nobility of character. No great man ever lived that was not a patriot in the highest and truest sense.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) is one of the most famous and influential classical musicians of all time.

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Henry Thomas Hamblin was one of the founding fathers of the New Thought Movement.

Horatio W. Dresser was one of the most prolific writers of the New Thought Movement.

Yoritomo-Tashi, whose precepts are presented in this book, ranks as one of the three greatest statesmen that Japan has ever produced.

The sages of the centuries, each one tincturing their thought with their own soul essence, have united in telling us that, As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Imagination relates either to the past, the present or the future. On the one hand, it is the outright re-imagery in the mind's eye of past experiences.