PORTEUS, Beilby Quotes
(1731-1808), English prelate
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
One murder makes a villain; millions a hero.
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.
One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero; numbers sanctify the crime.
It was an admirable and true saying of Plutarch, "That a city may as well be built in the air, as a commonwealth or kingdom be either constituted or preserved without the support of religion."
Every one must see and feel, that bad thoughts quicklv ripen into bad actions; and that, if the latter only are forbidden, and the former left free, all morality will soon be at an end.
One murder made the villain; millions the hero.—Princes were privileged to kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
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