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You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

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Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
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Content Preference Yourself
For life is only life when blessed with health.
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Blessing Health Life
See, how the liver is swollen larger than a fat goose! In amazement you will exclaim: Where could this possibly grow?
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Amazing Animal Food Growth Possible Yourself
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
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Content Language Need
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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Death Glory Late
You ask what a nice girl will do? She won’t give an inch, but she won’t say no.
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Herself Woman
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, “I will live.” To-morrow’s life is too late; live to-day.
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Believe Day Man Myself Wisdom
Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.
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Ash Glory Late
Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly.
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Fly Joy Life Live
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.
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Original Position Yourself
Life’s not just about being alive, but being well.
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Alive Health Life
He who thinks that the lives of Priam and of Nestor were long is much deceived and mistaken. Life consists not in living, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Health Mistake Thinking
No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can win praise.
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Blood Death Easy Fame Hero Himself Man Purchase

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day.

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