George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Quotes

• Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Love, Pain, Emotional

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• Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  World, Worst, Ill

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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.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Women, Heaven, Devil

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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.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Men, Mind, Desire

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• There is no heaven like mutual love.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Sweet, Heaven, Mutual Love

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• Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Patience, Complaining, Ass

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• Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Peace, Wind, Mind

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• Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Love, Marriage, Heart

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• Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Beauty, Be Kind, Charm

  "To Myra". line 21,

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• Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Suicide, Fall, Self

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• The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
  And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Shame, Virtue, Fame

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• Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
  Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Life, Art, Slave

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• O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Love, Pain, Generosity

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• The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Blessing, Sun, Thousand

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