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2107 Curious Word Origins, Sayings and Expressions from White Elephants to a Song & Dance

Why do people “take 40 winks” and not 50…or 60, or 70? Did someone literally “let the cat out of the bag” at one point in time? Has anyone actually “gone on a wild goose chase”? Find out the answers to these questions and many more in this enormous collection, comprised of four bestselling titles: A Hog on Ice, Thereby Hangs a Tale, Heavens to Betsy! and Horsefeathers and Other Curious Words. Dr. Funk, editor-in-chief of the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary Series, reveals the sometimes surprising, often amusing, and always fascinating roots of more than 2,000 vernacular words and expressions. From “kangaroo court” to “one-horse town”, from “face the music” to “hocus-pocus,” it’s an entertaining linguistic journey.

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Thoughts Are Things by Prentice Mulford: Essays Selected from the White Cross Library – 1908

Spirit is a force and a mystery. All we know or may ever know of it is that it exists and is ever working and producing all results in physical things, seen of physical sense – and many more not so seen. What is seen, of any object – a tree, an animal, a stone, a man – is only a part of that tree, animal, stone or man. There is a force which, for a time, binds such objects together in the form you see them. The spiritual mind today sees, belonging to itself, a power for accomplishing any and all results in the physical world, greater than the masses dream of. Life means the development in us of powers and pleasures, which fiction, in its highest flights, has never touched. This ever-acting, ever-varying force, which lies behind and, in a sense, creates all forms of matter, we call “spirit.” We have, through knowledge, the wonderful power of using or directing this force, when we recognize it, and know that it exists, so as to bring us health, happiness and eternal peace of mind. Edited by Rev. Lux Newman & Quimby Society. This is NOT a scanned-in copy of a pdf. It is a real text book, nicely designed.

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Zodiac Angel Cards: White Eagle Sayings & Affirmations for All 12 Zodiac Signs

These cards are designed to help you work with the ZODIAC ANGELS to make the most of life s opportunities, and to assist in understanding the particular soul qualities which you have come back to develop in this lifetime. Each card has been designed with a unique inspiring image and a relevant quotation from White Eagle, coupled with a process especially created to enable you to put the teaching into practice in your daily life. Alongside this is a suggested affirmation. Each sign of the zodiac comes under one of the four elements: Fire, Earth, Air and Water. The three zodiac signs associated with each element have seven cards specifically relating to each of the signs.