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• War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.
  -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 178...
• In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
  -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 108...
• One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
  -- Beilby Porteus (1731-1808) -- Death, Line 154...
• There taught us how to live; and (oh, too high The price for knowledge!
  ) taught us how to die. -- Thomas Tickell (1686-1740) -- On the Death of Mr. Addison, Line 81...
• To teach men how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing philosophy can still do.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over. -- Beilby Porteu
• He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap....
• Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death.... -- Longfellow
• Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.