an life, for it is one
of the great immutable laws of the universe. For one to take time to see
clearly the things one would attain to, and then to hold that ideal
steadily and continually before his mind, never allowing faith--his
positive thought-forces--to give way to or to be neutralized by doubts
and fears, and then to set about doing each day what his hands find to
do, never complaining, but spending the time that he would otherwise
spend in complaint in focusing his thought-forces upon the ideal that
his mind has built, will sooner or later bring about the full
materialization of that for which he sets out.

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Beauty seen is never lost,
God's colors all are fast;
The glory of this sunset heaven
Into my soul has passed,--
A sense of gladness unconfined
To mortal, date or clime;
As the soul liveth, it shall live
Beyond the years of time.
Beside the mystic asphodels
Shall bloom the home-born flowers,
And new horizons flush and glow
With sunset hues of ours.

_Whittier_

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Would you remain always young, and would you carry all the joyousness
and buoyancy of youth into your maturer years? Then have care concerning
but one thing,--how you live in your thought world. It was the inspired
one, Gautama, the Buddha, who said,--"The mind is everything; what you
think you become." And the same thing had Ruskin in mind when he
said,--"Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us as yet
know, for none of us have been taught in early youth, what fairy palaces
we may build of beautiful thought--_proof against all adversity_." And
would you have in your body all the elasticity, all the strength, all
the beauty of your younger years? Then live these in your mind, making
no room for unclean thought, and you will externalize them in your body.
In the degree that you keep young in thought will you remain young in
body. And you will find that your body will in turn aid your mind, for
body helps mind the same as mind helps body.

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There is a sacred Something on all ways--
Something that watches through the Universe;
One that remembers, reckons and repays,
Giving us love for love, and curse for curse.

_Edwin Markham_

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The power of every life, the very life i