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Time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing.
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The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!
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There is a history in all men's lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceased.
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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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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
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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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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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This act is an ancient tale new told;
And, in the last repeating, troublesome,
Being urged at a time unseasonable.
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That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.
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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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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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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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Love's heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams
Driving back shadows over low'ring hills.
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
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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, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having....
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From this time forth
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!
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Comets importing change of times and states,
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky
And with them scourge the bad revolting stars.
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'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.
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The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,
In forms imaginary, th' unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
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This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security.
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The time of universal peace is near.
Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world
Shall bear the olive freely.
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O my good lord, that comfort comes too late,
'Tis like a pardon after execution.
That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;
But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
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The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,
videlicet, in a love-cause.
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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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The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
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Have lost, or do not learn for want of time, The science that could become our country.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
William Shakespeare
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Born:
April 26, 1564
Died:
April 23, 1616
(aged 51)
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