"Henothing common did, or mean,Upon the memorable Scene:……" — Andrew Marvell
"Henothing common did, or mean,Upon the memorable Scene: But with his keener Eye The Axes edge did try:"
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Andrew Marvell
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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 Axes Quotes
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We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever…
— Thomas Carlyle
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To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world…
— Louise Bogan
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An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of…
— Linus Pauling
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I've been playing the CNN Drinking Game, have you ever played that? Where you do a shot every time George…
— Doug Stanhope
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Whether it's the Axis of Evil, or the evils of eating meat, it is a concept that has all but…
— Corey Taylor
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What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
— Franklin P. Adams
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It could just be a shift on the axis.
— Bill Cassidy
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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