George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne quotes
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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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“Beauty should be kind, as well as charm.”
-- George Granville, 1st Baron LansdowneSource : "To Myra". line 21,
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“Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.”
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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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“Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.”
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“Marriage the happiest bond of love might be, If hands were only joined when hearts agree.”
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“There is no heaven like mutual love.”
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“O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.”
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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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“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
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