#constancy

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back. ↗

— Alan Lightman

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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. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

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The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

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There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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The secret of success is constancy to purpose. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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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. ↗

— Richard Nelson Bolles

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

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Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

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Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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