A thorn is a changed bud. [ T. Lynch ]

They did not know how hate can burn
In hearts once changed from soft to stern;
Nor all the false and fatal zeal
The convert of revenge can feel. [ Byron ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. [ Beaconsfield ]

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [ Plautus ]

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. [ Virgil ]

Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Still it is a fine sight to see a man who has never changed his principles. [ Jules Favre ]

If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the whole world would have been changed. [ Pascal ]

No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater knowledge. [ Baxter ]

No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion. [ Cicero ]

Had Caesar or Cromwell changed countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman. [ Goldsmith ]

On things which are no more to be changed a backward glance must be no longer cast! What is done is done, and so remains. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration. [ Ouida ]

O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last; and careful hours, with Time's deformed hand, have written strange defeatures in my face! [ William Shakespeare ]

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the later to a soul changed for the better. [ Joubert ]

Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly - should still be new. [ Goldsmith ]

A book is a friend whose face is constantly changing. If you read it when you are recovering from an illness, and return to it years after, it is changed surely, with the change in yourself. [ Andrew Lang ]

There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy who was suffered to make his choice between Guicciardini and the galleys. He chose the history. But the war of Pisa was too much for him; he changed his mind, and went to the oars. [ Macaulay ]

Style! style, why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of his pulse, - in short, as any part of his being which is at least subjected to the action of the will. [ Fenelon ]

He must have an artist's eye for color and form who can arrange a hundred flowers as tastefully, in any other way, as by strolling through a garden, and picking here one and there one, and adding them to the bouquet in the accidental order in which they chance to come. Thus we see every summer day the fair lady coming in from the breezy side hill with gorgeous colors and most witching effects. If only she could be changed to alabaster, was ever a finer show of flowers in so fine a vase? But instead of allowing the flowers to remain as they were gathered, they are laid upon the table, divided, rearranged on some principle of taste, I know not what, but never again have that charming naturalness and grace which they first had. [ Beecher ]