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Bear toil and pain, not as if wretched under it, nor as courting pity or admiration.

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.

Recollect all you have passed through, all that you have had strength to bear.

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.

Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.

Find your sole delight and recreation in proceeding from one unselfish action to another, with God ever in mind.

No man can hinder the proper work of the mind.

Spend, then, the fleeting remnant of your time in a spirit that accords with Nature, and depart contentedly.