To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has hope. 9. CARLYLE-Essays. Characteristics. Sancho Panza am I, unless I was changed in the cradle. CERVANTES-Don Quixote. Pt. II. Still ending, and beginning still. i. Line 627. 1. It runs as runs the tide. Detached Thoughts. LELAND--Many in One. Pt. II. St. 21. All things must change To something new, to something strange. LONGFELLOw-- Kéramos. Line 32. But the nearer the dawn, the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right; Things have been mended that were worse, And the worse, the nearer they are to mend. LONGFELLOW-The Baron of St. Castine. Line 264. S. Pt. II. Canto II. St. 3. Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky, Dreary the leaf lieth low. All things must come to the earth by and by, Out of which all things grow. v. OWEN MEREDITH--The Wanderer. Is full of change, change, change,--nothing but change! w. D. M. MULOCK--Immutable. My merry, merry, merry roundelay From the Arraignment of Paris. All things that we ordained festival, Full fathom five thy father lies; Sc. 2. The love of wicked friends converts to fear; This is the state of man; To-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him. n. Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. This world is not for aye; nor 'tis not strange, That even our loves should with our fortunes change. 0. Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. Thou hast describ'd A hot friend cooling: Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay, It useth an enforced ceremony. From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. Elaine. Line 885. Life is arched with changing skies: U. As high as we have mounted in delight t. won. MILTON--Paradise Lost. Bk. VIII. He that has light within his own clear breast, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; u. MILTON-Comus. Line 381. Where an equal poise of hope and fear V. MILTON- Comus. Line 410. To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint! 20. HANNAH MORE-Sensibility. I see the right, and I approve it too, Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. X. OVID--Metamorphoses, VII. 20. |