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I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

Such fire was not by water to be drown'd, Nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

I am not now That which I have been.

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.

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 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 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.

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 this evening?

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.

There is nothing better fitted to delight the reader than change of circumstances and varieties of fortune.

No sensible man ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.

Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position.

Change or die.