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As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies. - Pliny the Elder (Caius Plinius Secundus) That each from other differs, first confess; next that he varies from himself no less. - Alexander Pope The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. - Alexander Pope Tired of the last, and eager of the new. - Matthew Prior 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 Variety is a positive requisite even in the character of our food. - John Ruskin Every change of place becomes a delight. [Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Epistles (28) Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. - William Shakespeare How nature delights and amuses us by varying even the character of insects; the ill-nature of the wasp, the sluggishness of the drone, the volatility of the butterfly, the slyness of the bug! - Sydney Smith Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. - Bishop Robert South Whatever is natural admits of variety. - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein) The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims I take it to be a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer) Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. - Edmund Waller Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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