The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Bishop Porteus

3 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

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— filed under Christ
Teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.— filed under Death
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah! why will kings forget that they are men, And men that they are brethren?— filed under Murder
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