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James
Allen was born in Leicester, England in
1864. Because of family difficulties following his father's death,
he had to leave school when he was fifteen. He worked for several
British manufacturers until 1902, when he decided to write full-time.
After he finished his first book, From Poverty to Power,
he moved to Ilfracombe, on England's southwest coast, and lived
there until his death in 1912. He wrote nineteen books in all. As
You Think is his acknowledged masterpiece.
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The
Wisdom of James Allen
by James Allen
$10.95
Softcover
- 384 pages
The
Wisdom of James Allen is the first book in the Laurel Creek James
Allen Wisdom Series. It contains these five great James Allen classics:
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As A Man Thinketh
- The
Path to Prosperity
- The
Way of Peace
- Entering
the Kingdom
- The
Mastery of Destiny
"THE
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn;
the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a walking
angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
"Your
circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so
if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel
within and stand still without... Whatever your present
environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts,
your Vision, your Ideal. You will become as small as your controlling
desire; as great as your dominant aspiration."
—James
Allen
from As A Man Thinketh
THE
CLASSIC WORKS OF JAMES ALLEN
have
inspired millions around the world to lead more successful and effective
lives.
"I
LOOKED UPON THE WORLD, and saw that it was shadowed by sorrow and scorched
by the fierce fires of suffering. And I looked for the cause. I looked
around, but I could not find it; I looked in books, but I could not find
it; I looked within, and I found both cause and the self-made nature of
the cause. I looked again, and deeper, and found the remedy. I found one
Law, the Law of Love, one Life, the life of adjustment to that Law; one
Truth, the Truth of a conquered mind and a quiet and obedient heart.
"And I dreamed of writing books which would help men and women, whether
rich or poor, learned or unlearned, worldly or unworldly to find within
themselves the source of all success, all happiness, all accomplishment,
all truth. And the dream remained with me, and at last became substantial;
and now I send forth these books into the world on a mission of healing
and blessedness, knowing that they cannot fail to reach the homes and
hearts of those who are waiting and ready to receive them."
—James
Allen
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