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That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
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Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,
Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs
And then grace us in the disgrace of death;
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time,
Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy
That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge
And make us heirs of all eternity.
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Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth
know.
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This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
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Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear times' waste.
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'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.
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A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion.
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When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age, When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store.
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From this time forth
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.
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Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-color'd taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day.
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Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.
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Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet.
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Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.
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There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.
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Now stand you on the top of happy hours,
And many maiden gardens yet unset,
With virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,
Much liker than your painted counterfeit:
So should the lines of life that life repair
Which this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen
Neither in inward worth nor outward fair
Can make you live your self in eyes of men.
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Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
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How long a time lies in one little word!
Four lagging winters and four wanton springs
End in a word; such is the breath of kings.
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It was a lover and his lass,
With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
That o'er the green corn-field did pass,
In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;
Sweet lovers love the spring.
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A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.
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You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.
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I have seen better faces in my time
Than stands on any shoulder that I see
Before me at this instant.
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What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,
Eightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours
More tedious than the dial eightscore times!
O weary reckoning!
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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