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If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past. - Dean Acheson That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy. - Freda Adler I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits.] - Vittorio Alfieri, Reason for Changing his Democratic Opinions Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.] - Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (XXVIII, 89) Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave. - Matthew Arnold, A Question (st. 1) Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. - Christina Baldwin Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - Arnold Bennett (Enoch Arnold Bennett) To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Louis Bergson Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? - Bible, Jeremiah (ch. XIII, v. 23) Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone. - Jorge Luis Borges Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. - Robert Browning, Rabbi Ben Ezra (st. 27) Ween not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause in deed to weep. - William Cullen Bryant Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. - William Cullen Bryant, Mutation A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation. - Edmund Burke Ships, wealth, general confidence-- All were his; He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set! where were they? - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) To the mind, Which is itself, no changes bring surprise. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) I am not now That which I have been. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 185) And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto V, st. 21) A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Dream (st. 3) Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee? - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Giaour (l. 106) How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room, Where high-born men were proud to wait-- Where Beauty watched to imitate. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Parisina (st. 10) To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope. - Thomas Carlyle, Essays--Characteristics Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus.] - Christoph Cellarius (Keller), Harmonia Macrocosmica Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXX) Nothing maintains its bloom forever; age succeeds age. - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short) Displaying page 1 of 7 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7
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