"It is said that an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations.
They presented him with the words:
'And this, too, shall pass away.'
How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! --how consoling in the depths of affliction!
'And this, too, shall pass away.'
And yet let us hope it is not quite true. Let us hope, rather, that by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures,
shall not pass away."
-Abe Lincoln September 30, 1859
Posted by Marylee Manson Armour
April 27, 2009
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