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CHANGe quotes
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
If a great change is to be made in human affairs, the minds of men will be fitted to it; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way. Every fear and hope will forward it; and they who persist in opposing this mighty current will appear rather to resist the decrees of Providence itself, than the mere designs of men.—They will not be so much resolute and firm as perverse and obstinate.
Today is not yesterday.—We ourselves change.—How then, 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.
The world is a scene of changes; to be constant in nature were inconstancy.
Perfection is immutable, but for things imperfect, to change is the way to perfect them.—Constancy without knowledge cannot be always good; and in things ill, it is not virtue but an absolute vice.
What I possess I would gladly retain.—Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
Remember the wheel of Providence is always in motion; and the spoke that is uppermost will be under; and therefore mix trembling always with your joy.
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal.—Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand, and their epitaphs but characters written in the dust?
The circumstances of the world are so variable, that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
It is not strange that even our loves should change with our fortunes.
In this world of change naught which comes stays, and naught which goes is lost.
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