George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne Quotes

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Love is a plant of the most tender kind,
That shrinks and shakes with every ruffling wind.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
'Tis impious pleasure to delight in harm.
And beauty should be kind, as well as charm.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Bright as the day, and like the morning, fair,
Such Cloe is…and common as the air.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage
A woman's envy?

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
The kiss you take is paid by that you give:
The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Since truth and constancy are vain,
Since neither love, nor sense of pain,
Nor force of reason, can persuade,
Then let example be obey'd.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
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
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
Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Of all the plagues with which the world is curst, Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
Shall Nature, erring from her first command, self-preservation, fall by her own hand?

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
The virtuous nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne
The radiant sun sends from above ten thousand blessings down, nor is he set so high for show alone.

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne