Maxims
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A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Selected from the World’s Sacred Texts
$30.99 Add to cartThis collection of daily thoughts to nourish the soul from the world’s sacred texts by Leo Tolstoy feature gems of inspiration and wisdom–author Thomas Keneally calls this book “transcendent, and tha… [more below]
- Author: Sekirin, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 1997
- ISBN10: 0684837935
- Language: English
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The Quotable Lewis
$39.99 Add to cartThis book presents more than 1,500 quotes from Lewis’s writings, providing ready access to his thoughts on a variety of topics. An exhaustive index references key words and concepts, allowing readers … [more below]
- Author: Root, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 23 1990
- ISBN10: 0842351159
- Language: English
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Don’t Forget to Sing in the Lifeboats: Uncommon Wisdom for Uncommon Times
$10.99 Read moreUncommon times call for uncommon wisdom. It’s inspiring to hear from people who’ve graduated from the school of hard knocks, yet kept a sense of humor. People like Twain, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde. People… [more below]
- Author: Petras, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: May 20 2009
- ISBN10: 0761155252
- Language: English
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The Essential Worldwide Laws of Life
$35.95 Read moreWhat does it mean to live a good life?
The major scriptures of the world, various schools of philosophical thought, storytellers, scientists, artists, and historians have all offered answers to this qu
- Author: Templeton, Sir John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1599473828
- Language: English
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The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
$26.00 Read moreThe Bed of Procrustes is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a … [more below]
- Series: Incerto #4
- Author: Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 30 2010
- ISBN10: 1400069971
- Language: English
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
$14.95 Add to cartThis perennially popular book of advice on how to achieve personal and professional success is valued for its timeless insights on how to make one’s way in the world. Written in the seventeenth centur… [more below]
- Series: Shambhala Classics
- Author: Gracian, Baltasar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2000
- ISBN10: 1570627452
- Language: English
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100 Ways to Keep Your Soul Alive
$13.99 Add to cartThis delightful book is truly a care package for the soul, full of practical wisdom for daily living and one hundred concise suggestions for healing and feeding the spirit.
FREDERIC and MARY ANN BRUSSA
- Author: Brussat, Frederic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062510509
- Language: English
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El Discreto: The Complete Man (1646)
$31.95 Add to cartAlmost four hundred years ago, in Zaragoza, Spain, Baltasar Graci? began to write what many modern-day scholars consider to be the most prolific and mysterious of his seven works, El Discreto: The Com
- Author: Graci?n, Baltasar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1945028521
- Language: English
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
$28.00 Add to cart“Use human means as though divine ones did not exist, and use divine means as though there were no human ones”. So wrote the Jesuit scholar Baltazar Gracian some 300 years ago, in a book that will be … [more below]
- Author: Gracian, Balthasar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385421311
- Language: English
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Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
$19.99 Add to cartCompiling the wisdom of nine books–including international bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking–this timeless classic provides readers with a daily message of inspiration and affirmation from N… [more below]
- Author: Peale, Norman Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 06 1993
- ISBN10: 0671868918
- Language: English
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New Rules Next Week: Corita Kent’s Legacy Through the Eyes of Twenty Artists and Writers
$16.95 Add to cartTwenty contemporary artists and writers reimagine Corita Kent’s iconic creative manifesto.
Known for her vibrant and powerful serigraphs, Corita Kent left an equally important legacy through her teac- Author: Corita Art Center
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 179721182X
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Life
$7.95 Add to cartA leading German metaphysician of the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) exerted an influence far beyond the hermetic world of philosophy, with adherents ranging from Richard Wagner and Fri
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 77
- Publish Date: March 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0486435504
- Language: English
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The Oldest Book in the World: Philosophy in the Age of the Pyramids
$39.95 Add to cartNoted author and Egyptologist Bill Manley renders into approachable modern English for the first time the oldest surviving statement of philosophy from the ancient world: the thirty-seven teachings an
- Author: Manley, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0500252327
- Language: English
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365 Days of Wonder: Mr. Browne’s Book of Precepts
$14.99 Add to cartOver 15 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder– now, the wonder returns with a companion book of life lessons and inspiration from Auggie’s favorite teacher–perfect for bac… [more below]
- Series: Wonder
- Author: Palacio, R. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0553499041
- Language: English
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The Complete Life’s Little Instruction Book
$19.99 Add to cartWouldn’t it be great if someone could download a lifetime of good old-fashioned common sense into one little book? H. Jackson Brown’s The Complete Life’s Little Instruction Book is just that. Solid ad
- Author: Brown, H. Jackson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 17 2000
- ISBN10: 1558534903
- Language: English
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The Super Hero’s Journey
$29.99 Add to cartThe second book in Abrams’ Marvel Arts line, featuring the art of the multi-award-winning, bestselling beloved Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell and the greatest super heroes of the Marvel Universe.
“Th- Series: Marvel Arts
- Author: McDonnell, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1419769103
- Language: English
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Little Book of Secrets: Gentle Wisdom for Joyful Living
$12.95 Read moreThis rare collection of time-honored wisdom gently guides, inspires, and opens us to life as it is meant to be, even in its ups and downs–joyous, peaceful, and prosperous.
Chris Prentiss, author of th
- Series: Little Book
- Author: Prentiss, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0943015588
- Language: English
