Nihil est aptius ad delectationem lectoris quam temporum varietates fortunseque vicissitudines.
There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.
No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum.
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.
Still ending, and beginning still.
On commence par être dupe,
On finit par être fripon.
We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue.
Change is inevitable in a progressive country,
Change is constant.
Benj. Disraeli—Edinburgh, Oct. 29, 1867.
Will change the Pebbles of our puddly thought
To Orient Pearls.
Dtr Baktas—Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week, Third Day. Pt. 1.
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 5
| text = Good to the heels the well-worn slipper feels
When the tired player shuffles off the buskin;
A page of Hood may do a fellow good
After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.
Holmes—How not to Settle It.
Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse.
Non si male nunc et olim
Sic erit.
If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.
Horace!—Carmina. II. 10. 17.
Plerumque grata) divitibus vices.
Change generally pleases the rich.
Horace-—Carmina. III. 29. 13.
Non sum qualis eram.
I am not what I once was.
Horace—Carmina. IV. 1.
.
Amphora coepit
Instituti; currente rota cur urceus exit?
A vase is begun; why, as the wheel goes
round, does it turn out a pitcher?
Horace—Ars Poetica. XXI.
Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?
With what knot shall I hold this Proteus,
who so often changes his countenance?
Horace—Epistles. I. 1. 90.
Quod petiit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.
He despises what he sought; and he seeks
that which he lately threw away.
Horace—Epistles. I. 1. 98.
Diruit, aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis.
He pulls down, he builds up, he changes
squares into circles.
Horace—Epistles. I. 1. 100.
Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.
The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and
the steed wishes to plough.
Horace—Epistles. I. 14. 43.
Deus haec fortasse benigna
Reducet in sedem vice.
God perchance will by a happy change
restore these things to a settled condition.
Horace—Epistles. XIII. 7.
There is a certain relief in change, even
though it be from bad to worse; as I have found
in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a
comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in
a new place.
Washington Irving—Tales of a Traveller.
Preface.
So many great nobles, things, administrations,
So many high chieftains, so many brave nations.
So many proud princes, and power so splendid,
In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended.
Jacopone—DeContemptu Mundi. Abraham
Coles—Trans, in "Old Gems in New
Settings." P. 75.
As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the
roving heart gathers no affections.
Mrs. Jameson—Studies. Detached Thoughts.
Sternberg's Novels.
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 22
| text = Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
| author =
| work = Jeremiah.
| place = XIII. 23.
| note =
| topic = Change
| page = 94
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{{Hoyt quote
| num = 23
| text = He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = The Idler.
| place = No. 57.
| topic = Change
| page = 94
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num = 24
| text = <poem>The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come over again.
