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• Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Pride, Two

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• The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Eye, Russia

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.

  Walt Disney

  Secret, Curiosity, Four

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• One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company's long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming's famous points, "create constancy of purpose." In his professional career, Walt's major passion was to provide the finest in family entertainment. For the most part, for nearly a century, the Company has stayed true to that legacy, and has set the standard for the entire entertainment industry.

  Bill Capodagli

  Passion, Careers, Long

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
  So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Sex, Book

  William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.223

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• He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Men, Wind

  Samuel Johnson (1793). “The Rambler”, p.254

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• The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.

  George Herbert

  Deities, Benefits, Arguing

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.353

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• What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

  David Quammen

  Life Is Hard, Miracle, Cheerful

  David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• ... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

  Charles Dickens

  Pity Love, Words Of Wisdom, Thank God

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.270

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• Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

  Claude Cahun

  Lying, Too Much, Narcissism

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• Marriage has, for its share, usefulness, justice, honour, and constancy; a stale but more durable pleasure. Love is grounded on pleasure alone, and it is indeed more gratifying to the senses, keener and more acute; a pleasure stirred and kept alive by difficulties. There must be a sting and a smart in it. It ceases to be love if it has no shafts and no fire.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Marriage, Smart

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Business, People, Society

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• Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

  Joseph Addison

  Marriage, Husband, Giving

  Joseph Addison (1867). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Ay Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.22

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• The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!

  Denis Diderot

  Love, Change, Time

  "Jacques the Fatalist". Book by Denis Diderot, 1796.

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• Six, or at most seven, hours' sleep is, for a constancy, as much as you or anybody else can want; more is only laziness and dozing, and is, I am persuaded, both unwholesome and stupefying.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Sleep, Dozing, Laziness

  "Lord Chesterfield's Advice to His Son, on Men and Manners: Or, A New System of Education". Book by Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield, 1815.

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• He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?

  John Steinbeck

  Reality, Men, Discovery

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.46, Penguin

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• Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Sea, Mind

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspere”, p.132

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• Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Independent, Yesterday, Discipline

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• People who know the state of emptiness will always be able to dissolve their problems by constancy.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  People, Able, Emptiness

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.71, Shambhala Publications

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• Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Loyalty, Fall

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.76, Paradise Publishing

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• When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to be surrounded by wicked men. He has the fear of God within him and wears the invincible armor of faith. This makes him strong and able to take on anything, even things which seem difficult or impossible to most people. Such a man is like a giant surrounded by monkeys, or a roaring lion among dogs and foxes. He goes forward trusting in the Lord and the constancy of his will to strike and paralyze his foes. He wields the blazing club of the Word in wisdom.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Dog, Strong, Men

  Saint Symeon (the New Theologian), Paul McGuckin (1982). “The practical and theological chapters ; and, Three theological discourses”

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• The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Christian Inspirational

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Hebrews (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and the percentage of energy returned on the energy invested in energy production, none currently appears capable of perpetuating this kind of society.

  Richard Heinberg

  Oil, Impact, Environmental

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• The simpleness, the sweetness, and the constancy of the tender mercies of the Lord will do much to fortify and protect us in the troubled times in which we do now and will yet live.

  David A. Bednar

  Mercy, Lord, Protect

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• Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that enables us to walk in a newness of life. Rather, fidelity to covenants, constancy of commitment, and offering our whole soul unto God are required if we are to receive the blessings of eternity.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Commitment, Blessing

  "Ye Must Be Born Again". David A. Bednar's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2007.

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