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When our old Pleasures die,
Some new One still is nigh;
Oh! fair Variety!
When our old Pleasures die,
Some new One still is nigh;
Oh! fair Variety!
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
It takes all sorts to make a world.
All concord's born of contraries.
All concord's born of contraries.
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
No pleasure endures unseasoned by variety.
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.
[Lat., Mille animos excipe mille modis.]
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.
Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.