Top 15 George Granville Quotes

Bright as the day, and like the morning, fair, </br> Such Cloe is—and common as the air.

Important truths still let your fable hold,
And moral mysteries with art unfold.

There is no heav'n like mutual love.

There is no vulture like despair.

But tho' we fetch from Italy and France
Our fopperies of tune, and mode of dance,
Our sturdy Britons scorn to borrow sense.

The liberal are secure alone,
For what we frankly give, for ever is our own.

Youth is the proper time for love,
And age is virtue's season.

In quiet shades, content with rural sports,
Give me a life, remote from guilty courts,
Where free from hopes, or fears, in humble ease,
Unheard of I may live, and die in peace.

In vain we plant, we build, our stores increase,
If conscience roots up all our inward peace.

The great, the vile, the coward, and the brave,
Are food alike for worms, companions in the grave.
The prince and parasite together lye,
No fortune can exalt, but Death will climb as high.

Thy thoughts to nobler meditations give,
And study how to die, not how to live.

I'll be this abject thing no more,
Love, give me back my heart again.

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.

'Tis impious pleasure to delight in harm.
And beauty shou'd be kind, as well as charm.

Nature indulgent, provident, and kind,
In all things that excell some use design'd;
The radiant sun […]
Sends from above ten thousand blessings down,
Nor is he set so high for show alone;
His beams, reviving with auspicious fire,
Freely we all enjoy what all admire.
The moon and stars, those faithful guides of night,
Are plac'd to help, not entertain, the sight.
Plants, fruits, and flow'rs, the fertile fields produce,
Not for vain ornament, but wholesome use;
Health they restore, and nourishment they give,
We see with pleasure, but we taste to live.