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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.]
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Source: Reason for Changing his Democratic Opinions
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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.]
Author: Ludovico Ariosto
Source: Orlando Furioso (XXVIII, 89)
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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.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: A Question (st. 1)
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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Author: Bible
Source: Jeremiah (ch. XIII, v. 23)
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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: Rabbi Ben Ezra (st. 27)
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Weep not that the world changes--did it keep
A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
Author: William Cullen Bryant
Source: Mutation
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I am not now
That which I have been.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 185)
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And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 21)
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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Dream (st. 3)
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Shrine of the mighty! can it be,
That this is all remains of thee?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Giaour (l. 106)
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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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Parisina (st. 10)
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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.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Characteristics
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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.]
Author: Christoph Cellarius (Keller)
Source: Harmonia Macrocosmica
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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my
cradle.
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (pt. II, ch. XXX)
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Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say
a year hence, but this evening?
[Lat., An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese
habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (II, 228)
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Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Officiis (II, 1)
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There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum
varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistles (V, 12)
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No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on
this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his
mind.
[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta
sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistoloe ad Atticum (XVI, 7, 3)
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Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: In Eutropium (I, 181)
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Change or die.
Author: Claudian (Claudianus)
Source: In Eutropium (I, 181)
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Still ending, and beginning still.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. III, l. 627)
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Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the
more.
[Fr., Il n'y a rien de change en France; il n'y a qu'un Francais
de plus.]
Author: Comte D'Artois (later Charles X)
Source: proclamation as he entered Paris as published in the "Moniteur"
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
Author: Comte D'Artois (later Charles X)
Source: proclamation as he entered Paris as published in the "Moniteur"
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We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue.
[Fr., On commence par etre dupe,
On finit par etre fripon.]
Author: Eustache Deschamps ("Morel")
Source: Reflexion sur le Jeu
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Change is inevitable in a progressive country,
Change is constant.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: at Edinburgh
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Author: Harold Wilson
Source: None
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Source: None
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Author: Ellen Glasgow
Source: None
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Source: None
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Author: Frank Herbert
Source: None
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Author: Washington Irving
Source: None
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If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
Source: None
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Author: Charles F. Kettering
Source: None
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Author: R. D. Laing
Source: None
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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
Author: Stanislaw J. Lec
Source: None
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If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
Author: Kurt Lewin
Source: None
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
Author: C. S. Lewis
Source: None
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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Author: Mignon McLaughlin
Source: None
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Author: Henry G. Miller
Source: None
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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
Author: Kathleen Norris
Source: None
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Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
Author: Irene Peter
Source: None
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The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Source: None
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Author: Carl T. Rowan
Source: None
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Author: Gail Sheehy
Source: None
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If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
Author: John A. Simone Sr.
Source: None
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Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Author: Shunryu Suzuki
Source: None
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Things do not change; we change.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
Source: None
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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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