Beilby Porteus Quotes

Beilby Porteus shares sober, moral thoughts on war and education, a steady guide for those pondering right and wrong.

11 quotes

1. In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

2. One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

3. War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

4. Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.

5. One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

6. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

7. Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

8. He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

9. 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.

10. 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

11. One murder makes a villian, millions a hero