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Horace on Change

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God perchance will by a happy change restore these things to a settled condition.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

With what knot shall I hold this Proteus, who so often changes his countenance?

A vase is begun; why, as the wheel goes round, does it turn out a pitcher?

He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough.

He pulls down, he builds up, he changes squares into circles.

Change generally pleases the rich.

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