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
Quotes , Source: Epistles--To Bernard Lintot, on a Miscellany of Poems
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The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. I, l. 506)
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Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Task (bk. II, l. 506)
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The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
Euripides
Quotes , Source: Orestes (234)
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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
Quotes , Source: Perseus
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All concord's born of contraries.
Ben Jonson
Quotes , Source: Cynthia's Revels (act V, sc. 2)
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Variety alone gives joy;
The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.
Matthew Prior
Quotes , Source: The Turtle and the Sparrow (l. 234)
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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 Richter
Quotes , Source: Levana--Fragment V (I, 100)
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When our old Pleasures die,
Some new One still is nigh;
Oh! fair Variety!
Nicholas Rowe
Quotes , Source: Ode for the New Year
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Cato
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