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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.

John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory, and a Life of the Author”, p.251
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.