Beilby Porteus Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.”
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“War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.”
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“Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express”
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“One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.”
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“But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.”
-- Beilby Porteus
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