Help finding author/source of needlework text

I am hoping someone out there can help me find the author or source of a 2-line saying found on a small punch paper needlework that dates back to late 19th/early 20th century. The text reads: "Life is a book of which we have but one edition. Let each day, as it adds its pages to the indestructible volume, be such as we shall be willing to let an assembled world read." A google search came up with one hit -- an almost identical text appeared in the May 9, 1885 edition of the South-Jersey Republican, published by Orville E. Hoyt in Hammonton, NJ. There's no author or source mentioned in the paper. If these lines are familiar to anyone out there, I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you. Dina