Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. -Andrew Marvell

 

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Andrew Marvell quotes in our collection. Andrew Marvell is known for saying 'Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

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Here at the fountain's sliding foot, / Or at some fruit tree's mossy root, / Casting the body's vest aside, / My soul into the boughs does glide.

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Earth cannot show so brave a sight, / As when a single soul does fence / The batteries of alluring sense / And Heaven views it with delight. -Andrew Marvell
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He hangs in shades the orange bright, / Like golden lamps in a green night.

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I would / Love you ten years before the flood, / And you should if you please refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews; / My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires and more slow.

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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. -Andrew Marvell
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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 shade.

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