Coups de fourches ni d'dtriviefes,
Ne lui font changer de manieres.
Neither blows from pitchfork, nor from the lash, can make him change his ways.
Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life soemeth fast,
But may not last—
It runs as runs the tide.
I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.
All things must change
To something new, to something strange.
But the nearer the dawn the darker the night,
And by going wrong all things come right;
Things have been mended that were worse,
And the worse, the nearer they are to mend.
Omnia mortali mutantur lege creata,
Nee se cognoscunt terra vertentibus annis,
Et mutant variam faciem per saecula gentes.
Everything that is created is changed by the
laws of man; the earth does not know itself
in the revolution of years; even the races of
man assume various forms in the course of
ages.
Manhjcs—Astronomvca. 515.
Do not think that years leave us and find us
the same!
Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky,
Dreary the leaf lieth low.
All things must come to the earth by and by,
Out of which all things grow.
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds
On half the nations, and with fear of change
Perplexes monarchs.
Nous avons chang6 tout cela.
We have changed all that.
Moliere—Le Mtdeein Malgr6 lui. II. 6.
Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a
good captain to make him an ill general."
All that's bright must fade,—
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest.
Moore—National Airs. All That's Bright Must Fade.
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
All things change, nothing perishes.
Ovid—Metamorphoses. XV. 165.
My merry, merry, merry roundelay
Concludes with Cupid's curse,
They that do change old love for new,
Pray gods, they change for worse!
George Peele—Cupid's Curse; From the Arraignment of Paris.
Till Peter's keys some christen'd Jove adorn,
And Pan to Moses lends his Pagan horn.
See dying vegetables life sustain,
See life dissolving vegetate again;
All forms that perish other forms supply;
(By turns we catch the vital breath and die.)
Alas! in truth, the man but chang'd his mind,
Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined.
Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with
Climes,
Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.
Toumoit les truies au foin.
Turned the pigs into the grass. (Clover.)
Rabelais—Gargantua. (Phrase meaning
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| text = <poem>Corporis et fortunse bonorum ut initium finis
est. Omnia orta occidunt, et orta senescunt.
As the blessings of health and fortune have
a beginning, so they must also find an end.
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but
to decay.
Sallust—Jugurtha. II.
With every change his features play'd,
As aspens show the light and shade.
Scott—Rokeby. Canto III. St. 5.
