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- 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
- Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet XII
- 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 extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, sc. 2
- Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Rape of Lucrece
- 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
- 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
- I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1891
- Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967), The Art of Living
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