Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.

-CharlesV
  Instructions a'   Philippe II son Fils ( Advice To His Son, translated1788). Quoted in G R Elton Renaissance and Reformation,1300^1648 (2nd edn,1968), p.137.

That long frontier fromthe Atlantic tothe Pacificoceans, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, is an exampleto everycountryand a pattern for the future of the world.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Address at the Canada Club, London, 20  Apr.

Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

-Dryden,John
  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy,'Shakespeare and Ben  Jonson Compared'.

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.5.

A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.5.

Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in historya plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. Those harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another, as wave follows upon wave; only one real fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations.Only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

-Fisher, H(erbert) A(lbert) L(aurens)
  History of Europe, introduction.

Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.

-Hardy,Thomas
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, ch.11.

And the softness of my body will be guarded by embrace By each button, hook, and lace. For the man who should loose me is dead, Fighting with the Duke in Flanders, In a pattern called a war. Christ! What are patterns for?

-Lowell, Amy
  'Patterns'.

World, world, I cannot get thee close enough! Long have I known a glory in it all, But never knew like this; Here such a pattern is As stretcheth me apart. Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year: My soul is all but out of meölet fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.

-Millay, Edna St Vincent
  God's World.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

-Nin, Ana|«  s
  Under a Glass Bell,'Birth'.

Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven into the texture of the soil in a strong pattern.

-A'Ghobhainn
  'Poem of Lewis'.