There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse... It is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Washington Irving

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Change New experiences

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Washington Irving

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English

Time

1824 1820s 19th century

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Irving, Washington. "To the Reader." Tales of a Traveller. London: John Murray/Philadelphia: H.C. Cary & I. Lee, 1824.

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A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

William Hazlitt

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Chess Great men

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William Hazlitt
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English
Time
1821 1820s 19th century
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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 1, London: John Warren, 1821.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays, edited by Jon Mee and James Grande. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Tennyson

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Openness to change Change

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Alfred Tennyson
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Locksley Hall Poems
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Poem
Language
English
Time
1842 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 182.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 182.