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“But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.”

“Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.”

May Time Fire Changed Elements Length Temper Severe Torment Piercings Paradise Lost Book 2

Author:John Milton

“God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.”

Knows Law Time Forget Mines Praise All Time Thee Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 2

Author:John Milton

“That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .”

Time Hate Evil Space Revenge Envy Enmity Paradise Lost Book 9 Guile

Author:John Milton

“The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.”

Thinking Needs Should Mind Real Body Time Culture Energy Citizens Constitution Aim Chiefs Permit Life Happiness Time And Energy Life Time Real Happiness

Author:Thomas More

“There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.”

Country Lying Time Sides Cutting Deer Archer

Author:Edwin Muir

“Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.”

Light Time Kindness Subjects Patience Faults Passing Passings Serving Courtesy Sojourners Kindness And Patience

Author:Edwin Muir

“Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy”

Humans Spirit Time Human Spirit

Author:Dervla Murphy

“Till I, high in the tower of my time Among familiar ruins, began to cry For accident, sickness, justice, war and crime, Because all died, because I had to die. The snow fell, the trees stood, the promise kept, And a child I slept.”

Children War Time Dies Justice Tree Crime Cry Promise Died Accidents Snow Familiar Ruins My Time Sickness Towers

Author:Howard Nemerov

“A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.”

Art Humor Funny Time Crime Criminals Burglars

Author:O. Henry

“Tempus edax rerum. Time the devourer of everything.”

Time

Author:Ovid

“La vraie e loquence se moque de l'e loquence, la vraie morale se moque de la morale. True eloquence has notime foreloquence, true morality has no time for morality.”

Time Morality Eloquence Morale

Author:Blaise Pascal

“But though first love's impassioned blindness Has passed away in colder light, I still have thought of you with kindness, And shall do, till our last goodnight. The ever-rolling silent hours Will bring a time we shall not know, When our young days of gathering flowers Will be an hundred years ago.”

“A message came on the wireless for me. It said: ''. So the time had come, I thought, Eighth Army was taking the offensive. The date was, I think, May18th,1942.”

Thinking Said Time Messages Army Offensive Wireless

Author:Vladimir Peniakoff

“Parliaments are the great lie of our time.”

Lying Time Our Time Parliament

Author:Konstantin Pobedonostsev

“Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in the dark and silent grave When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days, And from which earth, and grave, and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.”

Way Stories Age Earth Joy Time Dark Pay Lord Youth Raises Silent Graves Dust Shut Up

Author:Walter Raleigh

“Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.”

Years Young Time Week Missing Odd Warp Missing Each Other

Author:Adrienne Rich

“The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.”

Time Darkness Druids

Author:Isaac Rosenberg

“Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.”

Earth Lasts Time Growth Decay Last Time Fretting

Book:Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetry, Plays, Letters and Prose of Isaac Rosenberg (Illustrated)

“Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time.”

Time Perfect Youth Rose My Time Branches Prime Ivy Pluck Laurels

Author:Christina Rossetti

“Time rolls his ceaseless course.”

Time Courses

Book:Beauties of Sir Walter Scott

Source: Beauties of Sir Walter Scott

“We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.”

Long Moments Time Masters Long Time

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.”

Littles Long Doe Time Hours Dark Five Flow Moved Rounds Ships Wheels Bells Riding Flood Warships

Author:Adam Skirving

“The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.”

Body Time Support Monsters Nourishment Extremity

Author:Tobias Smollett

“Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!”

Long Doe Ends Moving Time Hours Numbers Weary Feathers Sad Times

Author:Edmund Spenser

“There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.”

Seems Time Laughing Tree Sweet Bears Spring Bird Meetings Fruit Heavy Colour Climbs Labour Prime One Time Load Suspicion Harvest Joyous Deck Pastime Shady Wanton

Author:Edmund Spenser

“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better.”

Men Time Grows Nostalgia Bridges

Book:Travels with Charley

Source: Travels with Charley

“Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?”

Said Time Father Fit Pension

Author:Laurence Sterne

“It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place, It has to face the man of the time.”

Men Faces Time He Man Speech

Author:Wallace Stevens

“For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”

“Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .”

Men Years Time Grief Tears Glasses Ran

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”

Poetry Time Turns Love Is Darkness Our Lives Wife And Love Rose Fruit Lust Dust Division Crowns Our Love Corpses Thorns Old Days Barren Life Time Derision

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.”

Long Time Rich Five Doctors All Time Classic Sentiments Epic Jewels Violet Lectures Scrap Sparkle Elegy Odes

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Come not, when I am dead, To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, To trample round my fallen head, And vex the unhappy dust thou wouldst not save. There let the wind sweep and the plover cry; But thou, go by. Child, if it were thine error or thy crime I care no longer, being all unblest; Wed whom thou wilt, but I am sick of Time, And I desire to rest. Pass on, weak heart, and leave me where I lie: Go by, go by.”

Ifs Heart Children Care Lying Desire Time Crime Cry Tears Wind Weak Sick Errors Rounds Foolish Graves Unhappy Dust Fallen I Care Leaving Me Vex

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.”

Age Time Names Voice Eternity England Harmony Organs Gifted Inventor Milton

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark; For though from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar.”

May Faces Time Dark Sadness Bears Bars Evening Pilots Bells Twilight Flood Farewell Face To Face Bourne

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.”

Way Book Past Time Lost Nations Change Memories Greatness Noble Remembered Islands Mist History Books Footnotes Camelot Offshore

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”

Mean Young Time Easy Sea Dying Mercy Green Chains

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.”

Artist Time Talking Too Much Position Right Time Wales

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.”

Time

Author:James Thurber

“How slow and still the time did drag along.”

Stills Time Drag

Author:Mark Twain

“But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.”

Time

Author:Mark Twain

“I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.”

Time Pieces Admire Rope Keepsakes

Author:Mark Twain

“For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.”

Feels Long Stills Real Lasts Time Brother Long Time Letters Gold Balls Rounds Smell All Time My Brother Affected Cricket Ache Leather

Author:Alison Uttley

“Time is the metre, memory the only plot.”

Time Memories Plot

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.”

Knows Seems Time Sweet Waste Fairs Rose Lovely Thee

Author:Edmund Waller

“A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.”

Needs Years Made Artist Time Millions Produce Selling Selling Something

Author:Thornton Wilder

“But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.”

Humans Time Human Beings Fool There Comes A Time

Author:Thornton Wilder

“It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake, And doth with his eternal motion make A sound like thundereverlastingly.”

Time Heaven Sound Sun Sea Holy Quiet Eternal Calm Evening Awake Broads Gentleness Adoration Sinking Nun Breathless Tranquillity

Author:William Wordsworth

“Ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how the watch was made.”

Made Funny Time Asks Watches

Author:Jane Wyman

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