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No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
He decried that any would
add another hue
unto the rainbow
yet we would ope to
saffron and jade
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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.
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
When our old Pleasures die,
Some new One still is nigh;
Oh! fair Variety!
When our old Pleasures die,
Some new One still is nigh;
Oh! fair Variety!
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
All concord's born of contraries.
All concord's born of contraries.
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
The earth was made so various, that the mind
Of desultory man, studious of change
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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.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
