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• "The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (King Richard at V, i)
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• "Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Both of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Ariel's song at I, ii)
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• "Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Bianca at III, i)
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• "All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral-- Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary."
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Capulet at IV, v)
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• "That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at IV, vii)
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• "This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love."
  By: William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (King at III, ii)
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• "I must not think there are Evils enow to darken all his goodness: His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, More fiery by night's blackness; hereditary Rather than purchased, what he cannot change Than what he chooses."
  By: William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Lepidus at I, iv)
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• "When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true."
  By: Sir Charles Sedley, Reasons for Constancy
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• "As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby (canto VI, st. 2)
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• "With every change his features play'd, As aspens show the light and shade."
  By: Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby (canto III, st. 5)
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• "Changing hands without changing measures is as if a drunkard in a dropsy should change his doctors, and not his diet."
  By: John Faucit Saville
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• "As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. [Lat., Corporis et fortunae bonorum ut initium finis est. Omnia orta occidunt, et orta senescunt.]"
  By: Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Jugurtha (II)
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• "Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves."
  By: Bertrand Arthur William Russell
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• "We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux."
  By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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• "Turned the pigs into the grass. [Fr., Tournoit les truies au foin.]"
  By: Francois Rabelais, Gargantua, a phrase meaning to change the subject
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• "Till Peter's keys come christen'd Jove adorn, And Pan to Moses lends his Pagan born."
  By: Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 109)
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