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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.
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.]
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
All concord's born of contraries.
All concord's born of contraries.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Variety alone gives joy;
The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.
Variety alone gives joy;
The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
Every change of place becomes a delight.
[Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]
Every change of place becomes a delight.
[Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]