Remember all the things you have already gone through, and how much you have been able to endure. The story of your life is already full, and you have done your duty. Think of how many truly good things you have recognized. How many pleasures and pains you have dismissed as unimportant. How many supposedly glorious things you have seen through and rejected. How kindly and wisely you have treated difficult, unreasonable people.
Remember withal through how many things thou hast already passed, and how many thou hast been able to endure; so that now the legend of thy life is full, and thy charge is accomplished. Again, how many truly good things have certainly by thee been discerned? how many pleasures, how many pains hast thou passed over with contempt? how many things eternally glorious hast thou despised? towards how many perverse unreasonable men hast thou carried thyself kindly, and discreetly?