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• "Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worst to better."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Dictionary of the English Language (preface)
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• "The general remedy of those who are uneasy without knowing the cause is change of place."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit."
  By: Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature")
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• "As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections."
  By: Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson, Studies--Detached Thoughts--Sternberg's Novels
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• "So many great nobles, things, administrations, So many high chieftains, so many brave nations, So many proud princes, and power so splendid, In a moment, a twinkling, all utterly ended."
  By: da Todi Jacopone (Jacobus de Benedictus), De Contemptu Mundi
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• "There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place."
  By: Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveller (preface)
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• "God perchance will by a happy change restore these things to a settled condition. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna Reducet in sedem vice.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (XIII, 7)
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• "The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 14, 43)
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• "He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away. [Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 1, 98)
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• "With what know shall I hold this Proteus, who so often changes his countenance? [Lat., Quo teneam vultus mutantem Protea nodo?]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 1, 90)
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• "He pulls down, he builds up, he changes squares into circles. [Lat., Diruit aedificat, mutat quadrata rotundis.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 1, 100)
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• "I am not what I once was. [Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (IV, 1, 3)
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• "Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (III, 29, 13)
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• "If matters go badly now, they will not always be so. [Lat., Non si male nunc et olim Sic erit.]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Carmina (II, 10, 17)
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• "A vase is begun; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher? [Lat., Amphora coepit Instituti; currente rota cur urceus exit?]"
  By: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Ars Poetica (XXI)
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• "Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse."
  By: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. VIII, l. 192), (Pope's translation)
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