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William Shakespeare on Retirement

1564–1616 England

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Time's glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

As You Like It (1599)

If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not;
Speak then to me.

Macbeth (1605)

The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right!

Hamlet (1600)

Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Macbeth (1606)

Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

The whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

The end crowns all;
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop.

Beauty, wit,
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
To envious and calumniating time.

Troilus and Cressida (1602)

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.

Othello (1603)

Begin to patch up thine old body for heaven.

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

King Lear (1608)

There is an old poor man
Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger.

Nature in you stands on the very verge
Of her confine.

King Lear (1608)

'Gainst the tooth of time
And razure of oblivion.

Measure for Measure (1603)

Attribution

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