Reads tagged with “public domain”
Lewis Carroll on Happiness and How to Alleviate Our Discomfort with Change
“There’s no use in comparing one’s feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.”
What to Do When Your Wife Is More Successful than You: Wise Advice from Tchaikovsky’s Father, 150 Years Ahead of Its Time
“Married happiness is based upon mutual respect, and you would no more permit your wife to be a kind of servant, than she would ask you to be her lackey.”
The Spirit of Sauntering: Thoreau on the Art of Walking and the Perils of a Sedentary Lifestyle
Why “every walk is a sort of crusade.”
Marcus Aurelius on What His Father Taught Him About Humility, Honor, Kindness, and Integrity
What it takes to attain “the mark of a soul in readiness.”
John Dewey on the True Purpose of Education and How to Harness the Power of Our Natural Curiosity
“While it is not the business of education … to teach every possible item of information, it is its business to cultivate deep-seated and effective habits of discriminating tested beliefs from mere assertions, guesses, and opinions.”
How to Work Through Difficulty: Lewis Carroll’s Three Tips for Overcoming Creative Block
“When you have made a thorough and reasonably long effort, to understand a thing, and still feel puzzled by it, stop, you will only hurt yourself by going on.”
Conscience and Spirit: Leo Tolstoy on Why Humans Drink
“The seeing, spiritual being, whose manifestation we commonly call conscience, always points with one end towards right and with the other towards wrong, and we do not notice it while we follow the course it shows.”
The History Manifesto: How to Eradicate the Epidemic of Short-Termism and Harness Our Past in Creating a Flourishing Future
A beautiful case for why our flourishing requires that we move from pursuing value to cultivating values.
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s Three Rules of Writing and Four Elements of Style: Timeless Advice from 1914
“Persuasion — the highest form of persuasion at any rate — cannot be achieved without a sense of beauty.”
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