Quote#Death
Teach him how to live
Quote byBeilby Porteus · 1731–1809
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Death: A Poetical Essay (1759), Line 316. Compare: "There taught us how to live; and (oh, too high The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die", Thomas Tickell, On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 81.; "He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live", Michel de Mon.
English (original)
Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.
— Beilby Porteus
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In sober state, Through the sequestered 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.
Brighter from her disease she shines, As fire the precious gold refines. Thus when the silent grave becomes Pregnant with life as fruitful wombs; When the wide seas and spacious earth Resign us to our second birth;
But see! the pains begin to fly; Tho’ Venus bled she could not die: See the new phœnix point her eyes, And lovelier from her ashes rise.
'Tis the night—the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play! Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they—it is they!
Good Christian People, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die.
