The classic text by James Allen is offered here in rhymed verse, with the original text, for comparison. Prose can be harder to remember than rhyme. 30 days hath September.... is easier to remember than facts taught long ago in school. Rhyme drives home James Allen's points in an unforgettable way.

Proverbs, aphorisms, epigrams, sayings, maxims, and so on are the refined gems of wisdom of a culture. They are often so mundane they are invisible, yet they are the foundation of much of our culture. One does not understand a language, or a culture, until one knows its proverbs and stories. Proverbs are the whispers of the ancients, of our ancestors, down through time. They are bits of wisdom, observations of detail, pattern, and process, designed to spare people from painful experience, or to guide them towards success. This is a collection of proverbs from many parts of the world, though predominantly from Western culture. Proverbs are sorted alphabetically. I had no idea there were so many, when I started this project, it has taken 11 years to get this together. This is a book to be enjoyed at fireside, perhaps with cheese and crackers to the side, slowly, the way books used to be read.

Proverbs, aphorisms, epigrams, sayings, maxims, and so on are the refined gems of wisdom of a culture. They are often so mundane they are invisible, yet they are the foundation of much of our culture. One does not understand a language, or a culture, until one knows its proverbs and stories. Proverbs are the whispers of the ancients, of our ancestors, down through time. They are bits of wisdom, observations of detail, pattern, and process, designed to spare people from painful experience, or to guide them towards success. This is a collection of proverbs from many parts of the world, though predominantly from Western culture. Proverbs are sorted alphabetically. I had no idea there were so many, when I started this project, it has taken 11 years to get this together. This is a book to be enjoyed at fireside, perhaps with cheese and crackers to the side, slowly, the way books used to be read.

The Tao Te Ching has been around for perhaps 2,500 years. Bruce Lee, and other martial artists including my instructors, quoted from it extensively. The advantage of a rhyming version is that it can be read with rhythm, for that quieter part of the mind one works with in the higher levels of spirituality, and martial arts. Parts of the original were rhymed. The Hsin Hsin Ming, or Way of the Heart, along with George Ohsawa's principles, are also presented in rhyme.

Florence Scovell Shinn's 4 books are classics of the New Thought movement, recently reborn as The Secret. This takes the ideas in those books, and presents them in rhyming verse. In the old days, students reduced their lessons to rhyme, and memorized them. They remembered those lessons for the rest of their lives. Paper and books were very expensive, until after WW II, in the USA. Rhyme reaches a deeper part of the brain than prose- think of your favorite song, it is easy to remember the words. The text and affirmations are all available in rhyme, in this. The wording is completely changed, so that it has meter, and rhyme. This was done so we could internalize what the author had to say, and we share it so others can, also.

This book helps you create easy to read writing for written communications, including letters, reports, electronic mail, and books. It includes lists of words and phrases to avoid, and a sometimes humorous list of common mistakes in writing. It is a simple get it done now book, not a textbook. Simple examples of each point are included.