“Alas! by some degree of woe
We every bliss must gain;
The heart can ne'er a transport know
That never feels a pain.”

—  George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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