Orison Swett Marden

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Orison Swett Marden


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Thornton Gore, The United States
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Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. He also held a degree in medicine, and was a successful hotel owner.

Marden was born in Thornton Gore, New Hampshire to Lewis and Martha Marden. When he was three years old, his mother died at the age of 22, leaving Orison and his two sisters in the care of their father, a farmer, hunter, and trapper. When Orison was seven years old, his father died from injuries incurred while in the woods, and the children were shuttled from one guardian to another, with Orison working as a "hired boy" to earn his keep. Inspired by an early self-help book by the Scottish author Samuel Smiles, which he found in an attic, Marden set out to improve himself and his
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“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
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“Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.”
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“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
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