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Variety: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billet-doux.— POPE — Rape of the Lock. Canto I. L. 137.
Hoy-day, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 137.
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 38.
Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity- * * * * * * That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears?— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 24.
Maud Muller looked and sighed: "Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be! He would dress me up in silks so fine, And praise and toast me at his wine."— WHITTIER — Maud Muller. L. 35.
on the Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.— WORDSWORTH — Sonnet. Sky. Prospect
from the Plain of France.
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.— ADDISON — Letter from Italy. L. 100.
S. The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. 1. L. 506.
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. II. L. 606.
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 flame renews.— GAY — Epistles. To Bernard Lintot, on
a Miscellany of Poems. 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.— WM. GIFFORD — Perseus.
How widely its agencies vary, - To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless, - As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.— HOOD — Miss Kilmansegg. Her Moral.
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?— MILTON — Comus. L. 710.
Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd, But, as the world, harmoniously confused; Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.— POPE — Windsor Forest. L. 13.
Variety alone gives joy: The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. C.— PRIOR — The Turtle and the Sparrow. L. 234.
When our old Pleasures die, Some new One still is nigh; Oh! fair Variety!— NICHOLAS ROWE — Ode for the New Year.
1717. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 240.
Diversité, c'est ma devise. Diversity, that is my motto.— LA FONTAINE — Paté d' Anguille.
Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergötzt, als Einerleiheit des Etwas. For variety of mere nothings gives more . pleasure than uniformity of something.— JEAN PAUL RICHTER — Levana.
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