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• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Wise, Wisdom

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• We need a variety of input and influence and voices. You cannot get all the answers to life and business from one person or from one source.

  Jim Rohn

  Voice, Needs, Answers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 23, 2016

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• It is easier to do many things than to do one thing continuously for a long time.

  Quintilian

  Long, Easier, One Thing

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• The most delightful pleasures cloy without variety.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pleasure, Delightful

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• Variety is the condition of harmony.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Harmony, Conditions

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• The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Diversity, Joy, Life Is

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.156

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• I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Philosophy, Enchanted, Great Gatsby Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.29, Atlântico Press

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• If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Life, Marriage

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

  Jean Paul

  Giving, Literature, Pleasure

  Jean Paul F. Richter (1880). “Levana; or, The doctrine of education, tr. [by A.H.]. Preceded by a short biogr. of the author [condensed from that of E. Förster] and his autobiography, a fragment”

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• Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.

  Chinua Achebe

  Heart, Reality, Diversity

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jan 01, 2015

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• One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

  John James Audubon

  Beautiful, One Day, Dolphins

  John James Audubon (1899). “Audubon and His Journals”

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• Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
  Her infinite variety.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Age, Infinite

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

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• Amidst the soft variety I'm lost.

  Joseph Addison

  Lost

  Joseph Addison, Henry George Bohn, Richard Hurd (1856). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: Poems on several occasions. Poemata. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals, especially in relation to the Latin and Greek poets. Remarks on several parts of Italy, in the years 1701, 1702, 1703”, p.35

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• Diversity, that is my motto.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Diversity, Motto, My Motto

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• Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.

  Ovid

  Way, Treats, Disposition

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• It takes all sorts (to make a world

  Miguel de Cervantes

  World, Wind In The Willows, Miscellaneous

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Lesley Lipson (1998). “Exemplary Stories”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

  Cato the Younger

  Memories, Charity, Way

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• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  E. M. Forster

  Cheer, Democracies Have, Two

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

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• Whatever is natural admits of variety.

  Madame de Stael

  Natural

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• If we get total certainty, we get … bored out of our minds. So, God, in Her infinite wisdom, gave us a second human need, which is uncertainty. We need variety. We need surprise.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Bored

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• We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

  Dave Barry

  Objectivity, Literature, Littles

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• Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Women, Age

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 2, l. [243]

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• Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

  Edmund Waller

  Hate, Never Change, States

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.111

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• The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Sorry, Together

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• Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

  William Hogarth

  Simplicity, Insipid

  1753 The Analysis of Beauty

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