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Quote by George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

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

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George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne, was a prominent English poet of the 18th century. His poetry is renowned for its elegance and emotional depth, influencing many poets that followed. more

“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.”

Life Long Home Pain Mother Speak Steps Duty Source Anxiety Letters Posts Ease Etc Coming Home Anxious Long Life Source Of Life

Author:Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

“The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.”

Love Pain Spirit Sin Poverty Worst Effects Lows Ideals Faculty Manifest Unworthy

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Today . . . we know that all living beings who strive to maintain life and who long to be spared pain - all living beings on earth - are our neighbors.”

Knows Life Long Today Earth Pain Strive Neighbor

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.”

Thinking Men Pain Evil Pleasure Highest Bravery Brave Be Brave Brave Man

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.”

Knows Feels Pain Sports Hours Beauty Chains Sigh Scarce No Pain

Author:Charles Lamb

“Oh stay! oh stay! Joy so seldom weaves a chain Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain To break its links so soon.”

Pain Joy Night Break Chains Links

Author:Charles Lamb

“The trouble with putting armor on is that, while it protects you from pain, it also protects you from pleasure.”

Pain Pleasure Trouble Protect Armor Protect You

Author:Celeste Holm

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