While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to the end that they were given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in Heaven.

john selden
John Selden (1584-1654) English jurist, legal scholar, antiquarian, polymath
Table Talk, “Pleasure” (1686)

 
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