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Life Let Us Cherish, While Yet The Taper Glows, And The Fresh Flow'ret Pluck Ere It Close
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Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
-- J. M. Usteri (1763-1827)
-- Life let us cherish
Related:
Life is short. Cherish it.....
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, .
..to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations....
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
-- Evelyn Waugh...
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
-- Of the Training of Children by Plutarch...
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. -- Irving Howe
Age, n.: That period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have the enterprise to commit.
-- Ambrose Bierce...
Life is too confusing for novices. We should let the experts take care of it.