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What happiness should we find in reviewing the past, what regrets? |
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Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day |
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as if we should die tomorrow. |
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Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. |
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We should live each day with a gentleness, |
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a vigor, |
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and a keenness of appreciation |
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which is often lost when time stretches before us |
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in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. |
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There are those, of course, |
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who would adopt the epicurean motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry" |
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most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death. |
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Most of us take life for granted. |
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We know that one day we must die, |
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but usually we picture that day as far in the future, |
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when we are in buoyant health, |
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death is all but unimaginable. |
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We seldom think of it. |
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The days stretch out in an endless vista. |
