William Shakespeare Quotes About Time
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Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
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We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun.
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Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.
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Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.
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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
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ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.
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There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them.
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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.
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We see which way the stream of time doth run.
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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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Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
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Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?
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Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.
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What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.
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We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
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What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
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... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which.
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Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
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The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
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Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.
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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.
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No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.
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Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.
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Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave.
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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 you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . .
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