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Wallace D. Wattles

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Born January 1, 1860
Died January 1, 1911 (51 years old)
Illinois, United States
Also known as: Wallace, D. Wattles, Wallace, D Wattles
16 books
4.1 (28)
1,099 readers

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Wallace Delois Wattles was born in 1860 and died in 1911. He was an American author from Illinois, and became part of the "New Thought" movement -the base of all self-help writings-, which included extraordinary names like James Allen, Prentice Mullford, and his contemporaries Orison Swett Marden, William Walker Atkison, and the editor of his works and writer herself, Elizabeth Towne. His best best known work is a book called The Science of Getting Rich (or Financial Success through Through Creative Thought", based completely on the principles of New Thought, and as the author acknowledge in the preface, had influence from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Hegel. That book inspired the world hit "The Secret", according to her author, Rhonda Byrne, in an interview with Newsweek. He also wrote two companion books to that one: The Science of Being Great; and The Science of Being Well, which complete the spine of his philosophy. His other works, previous to "The Science Trilogy", which have being made available in several versions, are: The Constructive Use of Foods (pamphlet) "Perpetual Youth" (1909, in The Cavalier), an early science fiction story. Letters to a Woman's Husband (pamphlet); Scientific Marriage (pamphlet) Hellfire Harrison (his only novel) A New Christ (1903) (A beautiful book on the social basis of the doctrine and works of Jesus, based on "Jesus: The Man and His Work", an speech he made in 1902) How to Get What you Want (1910), a shorter version with the principles of "The Science" trilogy. Making of the Man Who Can, republished later as How to Promote Yourself (1907, 1914) New Science of Living and Healing, republished as Health Through New Thought and Fasting (1909) What Is Truth? (serialized in The Nautilus Magazine, Elizabeth Towne, 1909)

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The Science of Being Well

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The Science of Being Great is from the author Wallace D. Wattles (1860 - 1911), whose work inspired the cult-phenomenon book and film "The Secret". He was a widely popular and pioneering writer in the self-help and success genres. According to Wattles each person has within themselves a Principle of Health. (The word Principle is used as meaning source.) The Principle of Health in a person, when in full constructive activity, causes all the voluntary functions of his life to be perfectly performed. It is the Principle of Health in a person which really works all healing, no matter what system.

The science of getting rich, or, financial success through creative thought

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As featured in the bestselling book The Secret, here is the landmark guide to wealth creation republished with the classic essay How to Get What You Want.Wallace D. Wattles spent a lifetime considering the laws of success as he found them in the work of the worlds great philosophers. He then turned his life effort into this simple, slender book a volume that he vowed could replace libraries of philosophy, spirituality, and self-help for the purpose of attaining one definite goal: a life of prosperity.Wattles describes a definite science of wealth attraction, built on the foundation of one commanding idea: There is a thinking stuff from which all things are madeA thought, in this substance, produces the thing that is imaged by the thought.In his seventeen short, straight-to-the-point chapters, Wattles shows how to use this idea, how to overcome barriers to its application, and how work with very direct methods that awaken it in your life. He further explains how creation and not competition is the hidden key to wealth attraction, and how your power to get rich uplifts everyone around you.The Science of Getting Rich concludes with Wattles rare essay How to Get Want You Want a brilliant refresher of his laws of wealth creation.

The science of being great

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Newly rediscovered by fans of The Secret, the metaphysical writer Wallace D. Wattles distills the rules of real power and personal achievement in this slender, immensely practical companion to The Science of Getting Rich.

The Prosperity Bible

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In a beautiful, durable volume suited to a lifetime of use, here is the all-in-one "bible" on how to harness the creative powers of your mind to achieve a life of prosperity-packaged in a handsome display box with a ribbon bookmark. The Prosperity Bible is a one-of-a-kind resource that collects the greatest moneymaking secrets of authors from every field-religion, finance, philosophy, and self-help-and makes them available in an attractive, keepsake edition. This is a book to treasure and return to again and again for guidance, ideas, know-how, and inspiration. Here is the only single volume where you can read success advice from Napoleon Hill, P. T. Barnum, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Fillmore, Wallace D. Wattles, Florence Scovel Shinn, and Ernest Holmes-along with a bevy of million-copy- selling writers who have one key element in common: a commitment to understanding and promulgating the laws of winning. ...

La ciencia de hacerse rico

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A classical work of the 20th century about the attitude that one require to get rich, that has inspired the great best-seller The Secret. The principles that should be put in practice to attract success and to overcome barriers are based on the creative thought, and an attitude to take advantage of the presented opportunities.El libro que transformo radicalmente la vida de Rhonda Byrne y que la inspiro para escribir su best-seller El secreto. Alcanzar la riqueza que anhelamos nunca ha estado tan cerca, gracias a los principios que aparecen en este libro, fruto de anos dedicados a estudiar las razones del exito profesional y personal. Las claves para lograr la vida de prosperidad que siempre hemos deseado.