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He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

— Beilby Porteus

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War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

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

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

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

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

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

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

Death: A Poetical Essay (1759)

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