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Wise, Stephen S.

 
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Sinopsis

Prepare for life with a clear, personal map that still leaves room for your own choices. This book argues that true readiness comes from thoughtful planning, moral courage, and the will to be yourself, not from rigid programs or external pressures. It invites readers to face life as a great adventure, charting a path that honors freedom, responsibility, and the higher ideals that shape character.

It speaks across stages of life—youth, maturity, and old age—showing how preparation, service, and steadfast purpose can guide every decision. The author emphasizes the value of choosing one’s own path, while also inviting a sense of duty to others, family, and the future. The perspective centers on living with integrity, cultivating inner strength, and keeping faith with what truly matters.

- Understand why preparation for life is more than schooling; it’s a lifelong habit of thinking, choosing, and acting with intention.
- Learn how to balance freedom with responsibility, and how to pursue goals that endure across ages.
- Explore how to keep faith, hope, and ideals alive, even as circumstances change.
- Discover how to serve others, develop character, and face the unknown with courage.

Ideal for readers of inspirational essays and those seeking guidance on personal growth, responsibility, and enduring values.

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Into the mind of youth must penetrate the ideal of self-preparedness, not of external preparation for the outward life, but of inmost preparedness for the inner life. Whether or not the prefl paredness programme be, as some hold, more menacing to the soul of America than foreign foe can ever become be cause it marks an immediate invasion of the American soul rather than a possi ble aggression upon American soil, it is certain that life cannot wortt be lived save after preparedness in the fullest sense of the term.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Youth: Preparing For Life

"How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams.
With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!
Book of Beginnings, Story without End,
Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
Aladdin's Lamp, and Fortunatus' Purse!
That holds the treasures of the universe!
All possibilities are in its hands,
No danger daunts it and no foe withstands;
In its sublime audacity of faith,
'Be thou removed,' it to the mountain saith,
And with ambitious feet, secure and proud,
Ascends the ladder leaning on the cloud."
- Longfellow: Morituri Salutamus.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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