Variety's the very spice of life.
That gives it all its flavor.
The Timepiece: The Task, Bk. II W. COWPER.
Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised.
But, as the world, harmoniously confused,
Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Windsor Forest A. POPE.
How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle, and who justly in return
Esteems that busy world an idler too!
The Task: The Timepiece. W. COWPER.
VIRTUE.
The world in all doth but two nations bear,
The good, the bad, and these mixed everywhere.
The Loyal Scot. A. MARVELL.
What nothing earthly gives or can destroy,—
The soul's calm sunshine, and the heartfelt joy,
Is Virtue's prize.
Essay on Man, Epistle IV. A. POPE.
Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures,
That life is long, which answers life's great end.
The time that bears no fruit, deserves no name.
Night Thoughts, Night V. DR. E. YOUNG.
Good, the more
Communicated, more abundant grows.
Paradise Lost, Bk. V. MILTON.
Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be wooed, and not unsought be won.
Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII. MILTON.
Know then this truth (enough for man to know),
"Virtue alone is happiness below."
Essay on Man, Epistle IV. A. POPE.