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in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do.

It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived,

He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual

most people would be chastened by the certainty of impending death

which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama

Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow

Such stories set us thinking, wondering what we should do under similar circumstances.

and specified time to live. Sometimes it was as long as a year, sometimes as short as 24 hours

but as long as your aerials are up, to catch waves of optimism

When your aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows

so long as it receives messages of beauty

the unfailing appetite for what’s next and the joy of the game of living.

of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of 60 more