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Quotes about Change


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

George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron

When, like the rising day,
Eileen aroon!
Love sends his early ray,
Eileen aroon!
What makes his dawning glow
Changeless through joy and woe?
Only the constant know!--
Eileen aroon!

Gerald Griffin

Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet!
Nothing comes to thee new or strange.
Sleep full of rest from head to feet;
Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove;
In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

The old order changeth, yielding place to new;
And God fulfils himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

A good woman is a wondrous creature, cleaving to the right and to the good under all change: lovely in youthful comeliness, lovely all her life long in comeliness of heart.

Alfred Tennyson Tennyson

They are perfect; how else?--they shall never change:
We are faulty; why not?--we have time in store.

Robert Browning

How he lies in his rights of a man!
Death has done all death can.
And absorbed in the new life he leads,
He recks not, he heeds
Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike
On his senses alike,
And are lost in the solemn and strange
Surprise of the change.

Robert Browning

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Robert Browning

If happy I and wretched he,
Perhaps the king would change with me.

Charles Mackay

Already the dandelions
Are changed into vanishing ghosts.

Celia Thaxter

We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.

Henry Codman Potter

Change lays not her hand upon truth.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Here's a pot with a cot in a park
In a park where the peach-blossoms blew,
Where the lovers eloped in the dark,
Lived, died and were changed into two
Bright birds that eternally flew
Through the boughs of the may, as they sang;
'T is a tale was undoubtedly true
In the reign of the Emperor Hwang.

Andrew Lang

Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,
But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,
Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found,--
A life-complete in death-complete to die.

John Banister Tabb

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems--but God remains.

Mrs. Humphry (Augusta Arnold) Ward

? John Bartlett, compYou shall not change, but a nobler race of men
Shall walk beneath the stars and wander by the shore;
I can not guess their glory, but I think the sky and sea
Will bring to them more gladness than they brought to us of yore.

William Roscoe Thayer

When change itself can give no more,
'T is easy to be true.

Miscellaneous

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Euripides

Have in readiness this saying of Solon, "But we will not give up our virtue in exchange for their wealth."

Plutarch

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

Marcus Aurelius

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

Marcus Aurelius

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Marcus Aurelius

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