Quote#Wisdom
Th' Eternal Mind, ev'n Heathens understood
Quote byJohn Byrom · 1692–1763
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Miscellaneous Poems (1773), The True Grounds Of Eternal And Immutable Rectitude" St. 1.
English (original)
Th' Eternal Mind, ev'n Heathens understood, Was Infinitely Powerful, Wise, and Good. In their Conceptions, who conceiv'd aright, These Three Essential Attributes unite. They saw that, wanting any of the Three, Such an All-perfect Being could not be.
— John Byrom
More from John Byrom
The point is plain as a pike-staff.
As clear as a whistle.
Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.
Christians, awake! salute the happy morn, Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born.
Some say, that Signor Bononcini, Compared to Handel's a mere ninny; Others aver, to him, that Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. Strange! that such high dispute should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Bone and Skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.