Through the sequester'd vale of rural life Beilby Porteus More Quotes by Beilby Porteus More Quotes From Beilby Porteus 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 Beilby Porteus description divine love-is One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Beilby Porteus murder hero numbers One murder makes a villian, millions a hero Beilby Porteus millions murder hero War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands. Beilby Porteus ten war peace 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 lessons men heaven 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 Porteus blessing exercise joy Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions. Beilby Porteus bad-actions bad-thoughts action He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. Beilby Porteus twice over he who Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god. Beilby Porteus you man god men
