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hi all

At 07:49 AM 2000/01/25 -0500, hilary wrote:
>janet,
>i'm not quite sure why
>cos it doesnt mean the same thing at all,
>but this brings to mind
>one of my mother's favourite  quotes..
>i'm sure there is someone out there '
>who remembers who wrote it,
> And can properly quote it.........Camilla?
>
>there is so much good in the worst of us
>and so much bad in the best of us
>that it ill behooves any one of us
>to criticise all the rest of us
>
>hilsry blue
>
>janet marie paterson wrote:
>>
>> it ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers
>> the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn
>> will not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures
>>
>> mahatma gandhi


hi hilary

here you go:

There is so much good in the worst of us,
     And so much bad in the best of us,
     That it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of us.
     - Edward D. Hoch (1849-1925)

http://icarus.cc.uic.edu/~dpanch1/quote-h.html


i think maybe the meanings of the two quotes are not that far apart
viz:
criticising others = showing no compassion for others
viz:
to get compassion, you have to give it
viz:
'who will throw the first stone?'


janet
still learning
dang it

janet paterson
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