George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Quotes
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O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
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Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.
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Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?
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Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.
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Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.
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Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.
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Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.
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Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
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Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.
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The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame, And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.
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The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.
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There is no heaven like mutual love.
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Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.
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George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
- Born: March 9, 1666
- Died: January 29, 1735
- Occupation: Poet
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