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Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.
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Find your sole delight and recreation in proceeding from one unselfish action to another, with God ever in mind.
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Tell over next all those you have known, one after the other: think how one buried his fellow, then lay dead himself, to be buried by a third.
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For death also is one piece of the business of life, and, here as elsewhere, it is enough to do well what comes to our hand.
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No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.
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Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.
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Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.
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Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.