Andrew Marvell Quotes

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• Meanwhile the mind, from pleasure less, Withdraws into its happiness; The mind, that ocean where each kind Does straight its own resemblance find; Yet it…
• And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
• Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.
• How vainly men themselves amaze, / To win the palm, the oak, or bays; / And their incessant labours see / Crowned from some single…
• I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness.
• Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
• Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns
• Art indeed is long, but life is short.
• So much one man can do that does both act and know.
• As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.
• Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.
• Annihilating all that's made, To a green thought in a green shade.
• No white nor red was ever seen So am'rous as this lovely green. Fond lovers, cruel as their flame, Cut in these trees their mistress'…
• He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try.
• And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
• The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.
• How could such sweet and wholesome hours be reckoned, but in herbs and flowers?
• Ye country comets, that portend No war, nor prince's funeral, Shining unto no higher end Than to presage the grasses fall. . . .
• But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
• Had we but world enough, and time, this coyness, lady, were no crime.

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