As A Man Thinketh

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On the faces of the aged there are wrinkles made by sympathy, others by

strong and pure thought, and others are carved by passion: who cannot

distinguish them? With those who have lived righteously, age is calm,

peaceful, and softly mellowed, like the setting sun. I have recently

seen a philosopher on his death-bed. He was not old except in year. He

died as sweetly and peacefully as he had lived.

 

There is no physician like cheerful thought for dissipating the ills of

the body; there is no comforter to compare with good will for

dispersing the shadows of grief and sorrow. To live continually in

thoughts of illwill, cynisism, suspicion, and envy, is to be confined

in a slef-made prison-hole. But to think well of all, to be cheerful

with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all -- such unselfish

thoughts are the very portals of heave: and to dwell day by day in

thoughts of peace towar every creature will bring abounding peace to

their possessor.

 

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