Quote#Politics & Power
In sober state
Quote byBeilby Porteus · 1731–1809
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Death: A Poetical Essay (1759), Line 108. Compare: "They kept the noiseless tenor of their way" (alternately quoted as "the even tenor of their way"), Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard, Stanza 19, line 4..
English (original)
In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
— Beilby Porteus
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