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Russell Conwell
The lecture opens with a tale an Arab guide once told Conwell beside the Tigris: a Persian farmer, Ali Hafed, sold his farm to roam the world in search of…
The lecture opens with a tale an Arab guide once told Conwell beside the Tigris: a Persian farmer, Ali Hafed, sold his farm to roam the world in search of diamonds and died poor, while the man who bought the farm found in its garden stream the richest diamond mine of all. The moral, repeated with story after story, is that opportunity lies at home, in the place and the work one already has, and that wealth honestly earned can be put to the service of others.
Conwell, a Baptist minister who founded Temple University in Philadelphia, delivered the lecture more than six thousand times and used its earnings to pay for students' education; this recording adds a short biography of him. Two LibriVox volunteers read it in about four and a half hours.
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