"Had we but world enough, and time, This……" — Andrew Marvell
"Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood."
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Andrew Marvell
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29 Quotes by Andrew Marvell
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Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its…
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And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
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Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
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How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see…
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I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To…
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Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
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Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns
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Art indeed is long, but life is short.
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So much one man can do that does both act and know.
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As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can…
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Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
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Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
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