"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any good kindness that I can show a fellow being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
-- Stephen Grellet
More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Grellet
I learned this as a schoolchild: it seemed to be a favourite for handwriting practice. I liked it then, found its cadences soothing and am now, at 67 and 30 years a Quaker, pleased to find its Quaker origin. Thank you.
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