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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

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Life consists not merely in existing, but in enjoying health.
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Enjoyment Existence Health Life
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
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Adversity Brave Himself Life True
No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied with reading a hundred epigrams.
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Misfortune Reading Satisfaction
A good man enlarges the term of his own existence.
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Existence Goodness Himself Man Term
It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life.
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Enjoyment Former Life Live
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
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Evil Fear Hide
However great the dish that holds the turbot, the turbot is still greater than the dish.
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Food Greatness Hold Value
Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my Friend.
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Book Creation Goodness Literature Myself Poem Writing
In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wreched life.
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Adversity Brave Easy Endurance Life True
Of no day can the retrospect cause pain to a good man.
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Day Goodness Man Pain
It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.
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Adversity Death Easy Live Reality
Be not too thick with anybody; your joys will be fewer, and so will pains.
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Happiness Joy Willing Yourself
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.
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Animal Bird Wings
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
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Flaw Imagination World Worst
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
Virtue extends our days: he lives two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
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Day Himself Past Pleasure Virtue

Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

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Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

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