_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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