“Of all pains, the greatest pain
Is to love, and love in vain.”
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne
The British Enchanters (1705), Act III, scene iii.
“A mighty pain to love it is,
And 't is a pain that pain to miss;
But of all pains, the greatest pain
It is to love, but love in vain.”
From Anacreon, vii. Gold; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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