Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.

 

Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.
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X, 47. Alternatively translated as "Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), and as "Nor fear nor yet desire thy last day", in Dictionary of Quotations (Classical) (1906), p. 280. Compare "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st / Live well: how long or short permit to heaven", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book xi, line 553.

 

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