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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
We change, whether we like it or not
We change, whether we like it or not
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
 I am not now
 That which I have been.  
 I am not now
 That which I have been. 
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon read more
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
 And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
 Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.  
 And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
 Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake. 
 To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works 
and Thoughts, if they are always to be read more 
 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.