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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I’ll tell you who time ambles withal, who time trots withal, who time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act III, Scene II, spoken by RosalindIn context
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Life & Death
Time enough to think of the future when you haven’t any future to think of.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Pygmalion (1912), Act II, spoken by HigginsIn context
- Advice
Time drives everything before it, and is able to bring with it good as well as evil, and evil as well as good.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527The Prince (1532), Chapter IIIIn context
- Good & Evil
I love a broad margin to my life.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), SoundsIn context
- Life & Death
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick1591–1674To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time (1648)In context
- Youth
Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
Andrew Marvell1621–1678To His Coy Mistress (1681)In context
- Love
But at my back I alwaies hear
Times winged Charriot hurrying near:
And yonder all before us lye
Desarts of vast Eternity.
Andrew Marvell1621–1678To His Coy Mistress (1681)In context
- Life & Death
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour
William Blake1757–1827Auguries of Innocence (c. 1803)In context
- Nature
Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time
John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn (1820)In context
- Art
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882A Psalm of Life (1838)In context
- Inspiration
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,
That is known as the children’s hour.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Children’s Hour (1860)In context
- Children
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Raven (1845)In context
Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson1809–1892Tears, Idle Tears (1847)In context
- Emotion
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
Omar Khayyam1048–1131The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)In context
- Life & Death