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Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. - Joseph Addison, Letter from Italy (l. 100) There is a variety in tempers of good men. - Francis Atterbury Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety. - Francis Bacon God hath varied the inclinations of men according to the variety of actions to be performed. - Sir Thomas Browne Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires. - Charles Churchill Variety is the very spice of life. - William Cowper 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) That divine gift which makes a woman charming. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Variety is the mother of enjoyment. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield The variety of all things forms a pleasure. - Euripides, Orestes (234) In books and love the mind one end pursues, and only change the expiring flame renews. - John Gay 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 charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") 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 There is a grace in wild variety surpassing rule and order. - William Mason All sorts are here that all the earth yields, variety without end. - John Milton God hath here varied His bounty so with new delights! - John Milton The most universal quality is diversity. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne Even pleasure cloys without variety. - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) 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 Displaying page 1 of 2 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2
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