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01c. 1809 AD

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear; To-morrow 'll be the happiest time of all the glad New Year,— Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day; For I 'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I 'm to be queen o' the May.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

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02c. 1809 AD

I, the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

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03c. 1809 AD

Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

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04c. 1809 AD

Ah, Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

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05c. 1809 AD

Some novel power Sprang up forever at a touch, And hope could never hope too much In watching thee from hour to hour.

Alfred Tennyson / quote

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06c. 1809 AD

You think they are crusaders sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of sentiment And dock the tail of Rhyme, To crack the voice of Melody And break the legs of Time.

Oliver Wendell Holmes / quote

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07c. 1851 AD

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,—what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.

Robert Browning / quote

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08c. 1851 AD

I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,—the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,—Nature's good And God's.

Robert Browning / quote

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09c. 1851 AD

They are perfect; how else?—they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?—we have time in store.

Robert Browning / quote

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10c. 1851 AD

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

Robert Browning / quote

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11c. 1814 AD

There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.

Charles Mackay / quote

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12c. 1816 AD

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. Life 's but a means unto an end; that end Beginning, mean, and end to all things,—God.

Philip James Bailey / quote

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13c. 1817 AD

I sing New England, as she lights her fire In every Prairie's midst; and where the bright Enchanting stars shine pure through Southern night, She still is there, the guardian on the tower, To open for the world a purer hour.

William Ellery Channing / quote

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14c. 1855 AD

One day with life and heart Is more than time enough to find a world.

James Russell Lowell / quote

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15c. 1855 AD

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

James Russell Lowell / quote

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16c. 1855 AD

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticised for us!

James Russell Lowell / quote

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17c. 1855 AD

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

Matthew Arnold / quote

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18c. 1832 AD

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night!

Elizabeth Akers Allen / quote

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19c. 1852 AD

My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

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20c. 1852 AD

While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

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21c. 1852 AD

In the days when we went gypsying A long time ago; The lads and lassies in their best Were dress'd from top to toe.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

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22c. 1852 AD

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, February has twenty-eight alone, All the rest have thirty-one; Excepting leap year,—that 's the time When February's days are twenty-nine.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

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23c. 491 BC

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Æschylus / quote

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24c. 451 BC

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

Sophocles / quote

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