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• The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Women, Philanderer

  The Philanderer act 2 (1893)

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• Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.15, 谷月社

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• In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Diversity, Movement, Body

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.2, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

  Julian Lennon

  Creativity, Balance, Found

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Long, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.43

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• As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.

  Lord Byron

  Confidence, Believe, June

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.589, Delphi Classics

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• Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Courage, Morning, Betrayal

  Cormac McCarthy (1992). “All the Pretty Horses”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

  Gary Hamel

  Heart, Matter, Deaf

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• A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.

  Confucius

  Men, Good Man, Mines

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Betrayal, Coward, Firsts

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.224, Pan Macmillan

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• If ever thou shalt love,
  In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
  For such as I am all true lovers are,
  Unstaid and skittish in all motions else
  Save in the constant image of the creature
  That is beloved.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Lovers, Beloved

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 15

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• Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

  John Wilmot

  Law, Strange, Cycles

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.53, Taylor & Francis

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• It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wife, Foolish, Chastity

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.378

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• Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

  John Suckling

  Weather, Together, Three

  'A Poem with the Answer'

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• Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Small Changes, People

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• But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Quality, Firmament

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 59

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• When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Perceive This! : How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life by Changing Your Perceptions". Book by Kevin A. Martin, 2004.

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• I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

  Sarah Fielding

  Children, Suffering Of Others, Mind

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• We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

  Mooji

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• Saint Paul asks his disciple Timothy to "aim at faith" (2 Tim 2:22) with the same constancy as when he was a boy (cf. 2 Tim 3:15). This invitation is directed to each of us, that none of us grow lazy in the faith. It is the lifelong companion that makes it possible to perceive, ever anew, the marvels that God works for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Boys, Cfs, Catholic

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• Constancy in a man is rare.

  Catherine Cookson

  Men

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• Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Choices, Vices

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2015). “Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Top Complete Works Collection”, p.1833, 谷月社

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• The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Principles, Habit

  William Gurnall (1865). “The Christian in Complete Armour: A Treatise of the Saints' War Against the Devil, Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints : a Magazine Opened, from Whence the Christian is Furnished with Spiritual Arms for the Battle, Helped on with His Armour, and Taught the Use of His Weapon, Together with the Happy Issue of the Whole War”, p.14

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• Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Destiny, Errors, Facts

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.126

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