2006-12-07 13:28:36 · 10 answers · asked by snugs 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Abraham Lincoln
"It is said 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 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!"
----Address Before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (September 30, 1859)
2006-12-07 13:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by tigerbychild 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are probably thinking of a poem by Lanta Wilson Smith, entitled, This Too Shall Pass Away. The phrase is common and found in many writings. It does not appear in that exact form in our English Bibles. 2 Peter 3:10-11 suggests the idea that earthly things shall pass and we therefore ought to live for eternity.
This, Too, Shall Pass Away
When some great sorrow, like a mighty river,
flows through your life with peace-destroying power,
and dearest things are swept from sight forever,
say to your heart each trying hour:
"This, too, shall pass away."
When ceaseless toil has hushed your song of gladness,
and you have grown almost too tired to pray,
let this truth banish from your heart its sadness,
and ease the burdens of each trying day:
"This, too, shall pass away."
When fortune smiles, and, full of mirth and pleasure,
the days are flitting by without care,
lest you should rest with only earthly treasures,
let these few words their fullest import bear:
"This, too, shall pass sway."
When earnest labor brings you fame and glory,
and all earth's noblest ones upon you smile,
remember that life's longest, grandest story
fills but a moments in earth's little while:
"This, too, shall pass away."
2006-12-07 14:17:43 · answer #2 · answered by sweetre2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have heard that it was a paraphrasing of 2Peter 3:10-11
2006-12-07 13:57:37 · answer #3 · answered by hotgirl2_22 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Often it's attributed to Abraham Lincoln. The origin is not certain.
2006-12-07 13:32:01 · answer #4 · answered by kanajlo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I heard it said by the priest on the tv show MASH.
2006-12-07 13:31:33 · answer #5 · answered by ♥♫♥ Crystal ♥♫♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isn't that the slogan used by Ex-lax?
2006-12-07 13:32:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a doctor telling mommy what will happen to the penny little johnny just swallowed.
2006-12-07 13:31:24 · answer #7 · answered by free thinker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever had kidney stones?
2006-12-07 15:15:17 · answer #8 · answered by craigsan91 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
someone with gas most likely
2006-12-07 13:29:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you sure?
2006-12-07 13:31:31 · answer #10 · answered by bobbie v 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋