Beilby Porteus quotes
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“Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.”
-- Beilby PorteusSource : Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, Beilby Porteus (1818). “The grave,: a poem,”, p.55
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“War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.”
-- Beilby PorteusSource : 'Death' (1759) l. 179
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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.”
-- Beilby PorteusSource : William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283
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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 PorteusSource : William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.288
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“Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.”
-- Beilby PorteusSource : Beilby Porteus (1805). “Lectures on the gospel of St. Matthew; ...”, p.85
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“One murder makes a villian, millions a hero”
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“The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.”
-- Beilby PorteusSource : Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13
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