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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Meek Nature's,evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. Wordsworth—Sonnet. Sky. Prospect from the Plain of France. VARIETY | seealso = (See also {{sc|Novelty) Amidst the soft variety I'm lost. | author = Addison | work = Letter from Italy. L. 100. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 830 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. | author = Cowper | work = The Task. | place = Bk. I. L. 506. | topic = | page = 830 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. | author = Cowper | work = The Task. | place = Bk. II. L. 606. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Prior, Richter}}) | topic = | page = 830 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The variety of all tilings forms a pleasure. Euripides—Orestes. 234. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 830 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flame renews. Gay—Epistles. To Bernard Lintot, on a Miscellany of Poems. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 830 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own. Wm. Gifford—Perseus. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 830 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = All concord's born of contraries. Ben Jonson—Cynthia's Revels. Act V. Sc. 2. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 830 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Diversity, c'est ma devise. Diversity, that is my motto. La Fontaine—Pate' d'AnguiUe. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 830 }}