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- My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part I, Act I, sc. 5
- A thought which, quarter'd, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act IV, sc. 4
- Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LX
- 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. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- Time's glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light, To stamp the seal of time in aged things, To wake the morn of sentinel the night, To wrong the wronger till he render right, To ruinate proud buildings with thy hour And smear with dust their glittering golden towers.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- Ruin has taught me 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. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LXIV
- The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 5
- I wasted time and now doth time waste me.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard II, Act V, sc. 5
- While you live tell truth and shame the devil.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry IV, Part I, Act III, 1
- But 'tis strange and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act I, sc. 3
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