Andrew Marvell - State Quotes

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To make a bank was a great plot of state;
Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.

Andrew Marvell

Choosing each stone, and poising every weight,
Trying the measures of the breadth and height;
Here pulling down, and there erecting new,
Founding a firm state by proportions true.

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,...

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