Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.
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Enough; and leave the rest to Fame!Andrew Marvell
When we have run our passions' heat,
Love hither makes his best retreat:
The gods, that mortal beauty chase,
Still in a tree did end their race;
Apollo hunted Daphne so
Only that she might laurel grow;
And Pan did after Syrinx speed
Not as a nymph, but for a reed.
Andrew Marvell
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 creates, transcending these, Far other worlds, and other seas Annihilating all that's made To a green thought in a green glade ... Such was that happy garden-state, ...
Andrew Marvell
Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.
Andrew Marvell
The world in all does but two nations bear, The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere.
Andrew Marvell
As lines, so loves oblique, may well Themselves in every angle greet But ours, so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.
Andrew Marvell
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