Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Beilby Porteus

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British priest Beilby Porteus.

Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Beilby Porteus, successively Bishop of Chester and of London, was a Church of England reformer and a leading abolitionist in England. He was the first Anglican in a position of authority to seriously challenge the Church's position on slavery.

British - Priest | May 8, 1731 - May 13, 1809

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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

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero.

Beilby Porteus

War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Beilby Porteus

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

Beilby Porteus

Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

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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

Beilby Porteus

Bad thoughts quickly ripen into bad actions.

Beilby Porteus

One murder makes a villian, millions a hero

Beilby Porteus

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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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.

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