Relentlessness of time

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Time, the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Effects of time Relentlessness of time Time

Author

Ovid

Source

Metamorphoses

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

8 0s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Ovid. Metamorphōsēs [Metamorphoses]. c. 8 CE, bk. 15, l. 234.

Current Citation

Ovid. Metamorphoses, translated by David Raeburn. Penguin Classics, 2004, bk. 15, l. 234.

Time is a violent torrent; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Relentlessness of time Time Circle of life

Author

Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 4.

Current Citation

Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 4.

He that runs against Time has an antagonist not subject to casualties.

Samuel Johnson

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Time is undefeated Relentlessness of time Time

Author

Samuel Johnson

Source

Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

Language

English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Pope." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Pope." The Lives of the Poets: A Selection, edited by Roger Lonsdale. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Age will not be defied.

Francis Bacon

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Topic

Relentlessness of time Aging Death The human condition

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

Of Regimen of Health Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Bacon, Francis "Of Regimen of Health." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Regimen of Health." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Even such is time that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our 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.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust!

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Nature of time Relentlessness of time Time

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

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Original Citation

Raleigh, Walter. Even Such is Time. London, c. 1618, I. 1.

Current Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "Even Such is Time." Great Short Poems. Dover Publications, 2000, I. 1.

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Tennessee Williams

The Timeless World of a Play

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Relentlessness of time

Author

Tennessee Williams

Source

The Timeless World of a Play The New York Times

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Williams, Tennessee. "The Timeless World of a Play." The New York Times, 14 Mar. 1951.

But meanwhile it is flying, irretrievable time is flying.

Virgil

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Relentlessness of time Passage of time Time

Author

Virgil

Source

Georgics

Medium

Poem

Language

Latin

Time

29 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Virgil. Georgica [Georgics]. c. 29 BCE, bk. 3.

Current Citation

Virgil. "The Georgics." The Eclogues and The Georgics, translated by C. Day Lewis. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 3.

Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defense.

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets

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Relentlessness of time Passage of time Time The human condition

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Sonnet 12 Shakespeare's Sonnets

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1609 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 12, I. 13.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 12.

Time, you old gipsy man,
Will you not stay,
Put up your caravan
Just for one day?

Ralph Hodgson

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Relentlessness of time Time

Author

Ralph Hodgson

Source

Time, You Old Gipsy Man

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Hodgson, Ralph. "Time, You Old Gipsy Man." Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1917, I. 1.