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Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Letter from Italy (l. 100)
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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.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. I, l. 506)
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Variety's the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.
Author: William Cowper
Source: Task (bk. II, l. 506)
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The variety of all things forms a pleasure.
Author: Euripides
Source: Orestes (234)
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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.
Author: John Gay
Source: Epistles--To Bernard Lintot, on a Miscellany of Poems
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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.
Author: William Gifford
Source: Perseus
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All concord's born of contraries.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Cynthia's Revels (act V, sc. 2)
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Diversity, that is my motto.
[Fr., Diversite, c'est ma devise.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Pate d' Anguille
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Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. I, 756)
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Variety alone gives joy;
The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.
Author: Matthew Prior
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.]
Author: Jean Paul Richter
Source: Levana--Fragment V (I, 100)
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When our old Pleasures die,
Some new One still is nigh;
Oh! fair Variety!
Author: Nicholas Rowe
Source: Ode for the New Year
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
[Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]
Author: Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Source: Epistles (28)
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No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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Variety is the soul of pleasure.
Author: Aphra Behn
Source: None
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It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
Author: Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Source: None
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
Source: None
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
Author: Hank Stram
Source: None
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If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
Author: Johnny Carson
Source: None
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Author: William Morris
Source: None
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The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.
Author: Cato
Source: None
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The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.
Author: Publilius Syrus
Source: None
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Author: Jean Paul Richter
Source: None
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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
Author: William Lloyd George
Source: None
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Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
Author: William Cowper
Source: None
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It takes all sorts to make a world.
Author: English Proverb
Source: None
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He decried that any would
add another hue
unto the rainbow
yet we would ope to
saffron and jade
and pink and rose
and olive and tan
scarlet and indigos
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*the quote is from Shakespeare's King John.
Author: Saiom Shriver
Source: None
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I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
Author: Terence
Source: None
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Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Author: Petrarch
Source: None
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