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Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, read more
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down.
That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light
Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons.
I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Things do not change; we change.
Things do not change; we change.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Change is inevitable in a progressive country,
Change is constant.
Change is inevitable in a progressive country,
Change is constant.
Such fire was not by water to be drown'd,
Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
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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.]
It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.