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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.

    "De Officiis".
  • The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

    Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик
  • Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

    Joseph Addison (1729). “The spectator”, p.43
  • That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other.

    Integrity   Men   Mind  
    Isaac Barrow (1861). “The Works of Isaac Barrow”, p.144
  • I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

  • Man's history is woven into waterways, for not only did he live beside them, but he used them as highways for hunting, exploration, and trade. Water assured his welfare, its absence meant migration or death, its constancy nourished his spirit. A mountain, a desert, or a great forest might serve his need of strength, but water reflects his inner needs.

    Men   Hunting   Water  
    Sigurd F. Olson (2012). “Wilderness Days”, p.44, U of Minnesota Press
  • My God, Sweetness beyond words, make bitter all the carnal comfort that draws me from love of the eternal and lures me to its evil self by the sight of some delightful good in the present. Let it not overcome me, my God. Let not flesh and blood conquer me. Let not the world and its brief glory deceive me, nor the devil trip me by his craftiness. Give me courage to resist, patience to endure, and constancy to persevere. Give me the soothing unction of Your spirit rather than all the consolations of the world, and in place of carnal love, infuse into me the love of Your name.

    Love   Sight   Self  
    Thomas (à Kempis), Thomas A. Kempis, Aloysius Croft, Harold Bolton (2003). “The Imitation of Christ”, p.74, Courier Corporation
  • Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .

    Francis Hutcheson (1769). “An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections”, p.7
  • 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 (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
  • And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

    "Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays".
  • Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

    John Donne, “The Indifferent”
  • Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

    Love   Heart   Quality  
  • Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.

    Epictetus (1916). “The Discourses and Manual: Together with Fragments of His Writings”
  • Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

    Marriage   Sex   Book  
    William Shakespeare (1824). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.223
  • The constancy of the internal environment is the condition for free and independent life: the mechanism that makes it possible is that which assured the maintenance, with the internal environment, of all the conditions necessary for the life of the elements.

    Claude Bernard (1974). “Lectures on the phenomena of life common to animals and plants”, Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd
  • Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

    William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.87
  • To grasp life and meaning, we assume constancy where it does not exist. We name experiences, emotions, and subjective states and assume that what is named is as enduring as its name. Human beings blessed and cursed with consciousness - especially consciousness of their own being - think in terms of names, words, symbols.

  • The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

    "The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill".
  • The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.116, Penguin
  • The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

    Saint Francis de Sales, Aeterna Press (2015). “Letters to Persons in the World”, p.24, Aeterna Press
  • Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.

    Spiritual   Prayer   Soul  
  • 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 (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing
  • Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.

    Daughter   War   Sleep  
    Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.113, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
  • 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 (1840). “Resolves: divine, moral and political”, p.123
  • But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

    Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press
  • Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

  • Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

    Knowing   Way   Tao  
    Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage
  • But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 59
  • The slaves of custom and established mode, With pack-horse constancy we keep the road Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells.

    Horse   Leader   Bells  
    William Cowper (1785). “Poetical Works: With Notes and a Memoir”, p.207
  • Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

    "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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