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• "Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say a year hence, but this evening? [Lat., An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?]"
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (II, 228)
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• "Nothing maintains its bloom forever; age succeeds age."
  By: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short)
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• "Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God rules the stars. [Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus.]"
  By: Christoph Cellarius (Keller), Harmonia Macrocosmica
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• "How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room, Where high-born men were proud to wait-- Where Beauty watched to imitate."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Parisina (st. 10)
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• "Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee?"
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Giaour (l. 106)
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• "And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto V, st. 21)
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• "I am not now That which I have been."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 185)
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• "To the mind, Which is itself, no changes bring surprise."
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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• "Ships, wealth, general confidence-- All were his; He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set! where were they?"
  By: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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• "A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation."
  By: Edmund Burke
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• "Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."
  By: William Cullen Bryant, Mutation
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• "Ween not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause in deed to weep."
  By: William Cullen Bryant
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• "Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave."
  By: Matthew Arnold, A Question (st. 1)
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• "Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground. [Lat., Ne spegner puo per star nell'acqua il foco; Ne puo stato mutar per mutar loco.]"
  By: Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (XXVIII, 89)
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• "I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small. [Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits.]"
  By: Vittorio Alfieri, Reason for Changing his Democratic Opinions
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• "That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy."
  By: Freda Adler
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