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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
He decried that any would
add another hue
unto the rainbow
yet we would ope to
saffron and jade
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He decried that any would
add another hue
unto the rainbow
yet we would ope to
saffron and jade
and pink and rose
and olive and tan
scarlet and indigos
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*the quote is from Shakespeare's King John.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.
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.]
All concord's born of contraries.
All concord's born of contraries.
Every change of place becomes a delight.
[Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]
Every change of place becomes a delight.
[Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.
For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity
of something.
[Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr read more
For variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity
of something.
[Ger., Weil Verschiedenheit des Nichts mehr ergotzt, als
Einerleiheit des Etwas.]
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.