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Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. - Joseph Addison, Letter from Italy (l. 100) The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. - William Cowper, Task (bk. I, l. 506) Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. - William Cowper, Task (bk. II, l. 506) The variety of all things forms a pleasure. - Euripides, Orestes (234) Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews. - John Gay, Epistles--To Bernard Lintot, on a Miscellany of Poems Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own. - William Gifford, Perseus The great source of pleasure is variety. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") All concord's born of contraries. - Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels (act V, sc. 2) Diversity, that is my motto. [Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Pate d' Anguille Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways. [Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 756) Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. - Francesco Petrarch Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. - Matthew Prior, The Turtle and the Sparrow (l. 234) For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something. [Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als Einerleiheit des Etwas.] - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul), Levana--Fragment V (I, 100) When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh; Oh! fair Variety! - Nicholas Rowe, Ode for the New Year Every change of place becomes a delight. [Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistles (28) No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims
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