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• Children have a right to some stability and constancy from the adults in their lives.

  Dan Savage

  Children, Adults, Stability

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• Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Funny, Change

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• The mountain rill Seeks with no surer flow the far bright sea, Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.

  Benjamin

  Sea, Mountain, Flow

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• There is nothing but death
  Our affections can sever,
  And till life's latest breath
  Love shall bind us for ever.

  James Gates Percival

  Affection, Breaths

  James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.133

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• Alas! they had been friends in youth;
  But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in realms above;
  And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
  And to be wroth with one we love
  Doth work like madness in the brain.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Life, Brain, Poison

  'Christabel' pt. 2 (1800) (l. 408)

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• There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Two, Merit

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• Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens

  Joseph Gerber

  Determination, Rain, Doors

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• When we say 'time', I believe we mean at least two things. We mean changes. And we mean something unchangeable. We mean something that moves . but against an unmoving background. And vice versa.Animals can sense changes. But consciousness of time involves the double sense of constancy and change. Which can only be attributed to those who give expression to it. And that can only be done through language, and only man has language.The perception of time and language are inextricably bound up with one another.

  Peter Høeg

  Believe, Moving, Mean

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.253, Macmillan

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• No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Men, Opinion

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• Constancy is the chimera of love.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Chimera

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• There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

  Thomas Southerne

  Courage, Causes, Innocence

  Thomas Southerne (1713). “The maid's last prayer: or, Any, rather than fail. The fatal marriage: or, The innocent adultery. Oroonoko. The fate of Capua. [Taken from general t-p; some variations on special t-ps, e.g. Sir Antony Love”, p.301

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• But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Love, Passion, Affection

  "De Officiis".

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• The older I grow, the more I realize how unfit we are for relationships. We are all such antagonists. It's part of the human condition to be deeply unfaithful to constancy. I do believe that.

  Vivian Gornick

  Believe, Unfaithful, Realizing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.

  Owen Feltham

  Change, Names, Perfection

  Owen Feltham (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123

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• Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

  Winston Churchill

  Death, Journey, Sorrow

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• Knowing constancy, the mind is open.
  With an open mind, you will be openhearted.
  Being openhearted you will act royally.
  Being royal, you will attain the divine.
  Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao.
  Being at one with the Tao is eternal.
  Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away.

  Laozi

  Heart, Knowing, Mind

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• In many ways, constancy is an illusion.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Memorable, Way, Illusion

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.14, Grove Press

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• The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Struggle, Past, Law

  "Twenty Years of Mr. Justice Holmes' Constitutional Opinions". Felix Frankfurter, "The Harvard Law Review", Volume 36, 1923.

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• Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Marriage, Blessing, People

  Man and Superman (1903) act 3

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• Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Pain

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Art, Agitation

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• I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Sea

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.530, Paradise Publishing

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• We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands upon the plow. It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it's important for you to do what you can do.

  Ossie Davis

  Encouragement, Stars, Eye

  Ossie Davis (2006). “Life Lit by Some Large Vision: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• In the consciousness of belonging together, in the sense of constancy, resides the sanctity, the beauty of matrimony, which helps us to endure pain more easily, to enjoy happiness doubly, and to give rise to the fullest and finest development of our nature.

  Fanny Lewald

  Pain, Giving, Together

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• What seems real one moment is fiction the next
  and gone out of existence the moment after that.
  Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
  and change our only constancy.

  David Budbill

  Real, Enemy, Gone

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