"He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon……" — Andrew Marvell
"He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try."
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29 Quotes by Andrew Marvell
Andrew Marvell has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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More Axe Quotes
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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business,…
— Lord Byron
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. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us…
— Franz Kafka
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If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge,"…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
— John B. S. Haldane
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.
— William Shakespeare
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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work…
— John Milton
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When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that…
— George Orwell
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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed…
— Victor Hugo
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You may loan your last dollar to a friend; but never loan him your axe, unless you are certain that…
— Horace Kephart
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Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of…
— Unknown Author
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