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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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Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.
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There's no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature.
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You fools of fortune, trencher-friends, time's flies.
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.
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O good old man! how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion.
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A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion.
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The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
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There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times.
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From this time forth
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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But, alas! to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at.
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Give me to drink mandragora…
That I might sleep out this great gap of time
My Antony is away.
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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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But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wip'd a tear, And know what 'tis to pity, and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.
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Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,
Nor age so eat up my invention,
Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,
Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,
But they shall find awaked in such a kind
Both strength of limb and policy of mind,
Ability in means, and choice of friends,
To quit me of them throughly.
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This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
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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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This act is an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?
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A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in.
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Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
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O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out
Against the wreckful siege of battering days,
When rocks impregnable are not so stout,
Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?
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The weight of this sad time we must obey;
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young, Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
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'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.
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Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?
What masque, what music? How shall we beguile
The lazy time if not with some delight?
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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