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May I leave you with one thought for tonight?

"We shall pass through this world but once. Therefore, any good thing I can do, for any living being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again." ~ Anonymous

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Sorry, but I'm not interested. I can come up with my own thoughts.

    By the way, the quote is generally credited to Stephen Grellet, 1773-1855 (French-born Quaker Minister). This, and variants of it, have been been widely circulated as a Quaker saying since at least 1869, and attributed to Grellet since at least 1893. W. Gurney Benham in Benham's Book of Quotations, Proverbs, and Household Words (1907) states that though sometimes attributed to others, "there seems to be some authority in favor of Stephen Grellet being the author, but the passage does not appear in any of his printed works." It appears to have been published as an anonymous proverb at least as early as 1859, when it appeared in Household Words : A Weekly Journal. It has also often become mis-attributed to the more famous Quaker William Penn, as well as others including Mahatma Gandhi and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

  • 1 decade ago

    I love that quote. :) I've known that one for years now.

    "I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness or abilities that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."

    - William Penn

    Source(s): my opinion
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    As a Christian, the Lord tells me to be the salt, ie. to preserve, uphold, help,

    make more flavorful, and that's how I see my life, whenever, wherever possible,

    and yes, sometimes, as the people below say here (pun??) this is very

    impossible in which case, I defer until I can overcome this deluge of

    negativity that sometimes just swamps over me, and then it recedes and

    then I can 'keep on truckin'. People all suffer pain and to help is just

    such a privilege even for a moment of time.

  • 4 years ago

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  • J R
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    hey, thats my quote. Im Anonymous. Great Spread the Word. HAahahahaha!!!

  • Ned,

    All my life

    I've tried to follow this.

    And now

    at 70 +

    I'm fully aware

    that before my final nod,

    I must do something more substantial

    than I've done hither to.

    Thanks Ned.

    A Star Q.

    Source(s): Love thy neighbor as thyself !
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Okely Dokely!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Sounds like a Peter Singer argument, very well put. I agree

  • 1 decade ago

    ok ned try this one on .. we know not the ripple effect of one small act of kindness neither the multiple effects of sin ,selfishness or evil. Odds are the echo throughout the universe

  • 1 decade ago

    You pass this way almost every weekday. Channel4, 6pm, The Simpsons, check it out diddley.

    Source(s): I think therefore I am Atheist.
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