Change

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.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

Shrine of the mighty! can it be,
That this is all remains of thee?

Shrine of the mighty! can it be,
That this is all remains of thee?

How chang'd since last her speaking eye
Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,
Where high-born men were read more

How chang'd since last her speaking eye
Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room,
Where high-born men were proud to wait--
Where Beauty watched to imitate.

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.

Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God
rules the stars.
[Lat., Tempora read more

Times change and we change with them. The stars rule men but God
rules the stars.
[Lat., Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
Astra regunt homines, sed regit astra Deus.]

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my
cradle.

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my
cradle.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say
a year hence, but read more

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say
a year hence, but this evening?
[Lat., An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese
habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?]

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., read more

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change
of circumstances and varieties of fortune.
[Lat., Nihil est aptius delectationem lectoris quam temporum
varietates fortunaeque vicissitudines.]