"I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error."
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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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"No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change."
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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 is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to season. Nay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say, That Time comes stealing on by night and day?"
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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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"So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate."
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"Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try."
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"Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow."
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"Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young."
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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 is the nurse and breeder of all good."
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"Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time."
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"This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security."
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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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"What else may hap, to time I will commit."
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"Delivered from the galling yoke of time."
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"Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs."
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"Unpunctuality is a vile habit."
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"We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area."
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