Beilby Porteus Quotes

• 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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  Love Is, Divine, Description

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• Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

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  Action, Bad Thoughts, Bad Actions

  Beilby Porteus (1805). “Lectures on the gospel of St. Matthew; ...”, p.85

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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.

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  Exercise, Blessing, Joy

  Beilby Porteus (1823). “Works of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, late Bishop of London: with his life”, p.13

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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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  Hero, Numbers, Murder

  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.

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  Men, Heaven, Lessons

  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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• One murder makes a villian, millions a hero

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  Hero, Murder, Millions

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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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  Life, Way, Tenors

  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.

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  Peace, War, Ten

  'Death' (1759) l. 179

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