"How could such sweet and wholesome hours be……" — Andrew Marvell
"How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?"
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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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To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
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In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials,…
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True love stories never have endings.
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The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have…
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
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A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked…
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its…
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses!…
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I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.
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