Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 453 |
| AUTHOR: | Author unknown |
| QUOTATION: | Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Author unknown, “I Shall Not Pass This Way Again.”—The Best Loved Poems of the American People, ed. Hazel Felleman, p. 77 (1936). |
| SUBJECTS: | Doing good |