Top 14 George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Quotes
#1. Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?
#2. There is no heaven like mutual love.
#3. Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
#4. 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.
#5. The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.
#6. The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.
#7. Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.
#8. Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.
#9. Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.
#10. Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.
#11. Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.
#12. 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.
#13. Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.
#14. O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.
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