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“The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.”
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“People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.”
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“You change your life by changing your heart.”
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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.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes 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.]”
Ludovico Ariosto Quotes 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.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: A Question (st. 1)
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“Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?”
Bible Quotes Source: Jeremiah (ch. XIII, v. 23)
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“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Robert Browning Quotes 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.”
William Cullen Bryant Quotes Source: Mutation
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“I am not now
That which I have been.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto V, st. 21)
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“A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Dream (st. 3)
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“Shrine of the mighty! can it be,
That this is all remains of thee?”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes 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.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes 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.]”
Christoph Cellarius (Keller) Quotes Source: Harmonia Macrocosmica
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“Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my
cradle.”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes 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?]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes 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.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes 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.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes 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.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes 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.]”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: In Eutropium (I, 181)
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“Change or die.”
Claudian (Claudianus) Quotes Source: In Eutropium (I, 181)
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“Still ending, and beginning still.”
William Cowper Quotes 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.]”
Comte D'Artois (later Charles X) Quotes Source: proclamation as he entered Paris as published in the "Moniteur"
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