William Shakespeare Quotes About Past
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The past is prologue.
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When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.
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What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.
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Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.
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Past all shame, so past all truth.
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Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.
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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
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When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.
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For you and I are past our dancing days.
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Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done.
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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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The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
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O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past
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Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.
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Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.
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We have seen better days.
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The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.
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Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.
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The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
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To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
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When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
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O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
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They say miracles are past.
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I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
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What is past is prologue.
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Things past redress are now with me past care
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Remembrance of things past.
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O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.
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And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.
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Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated
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