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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Men, Opinion

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.

  Irving Penn

  Lying, Fall, Simple

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• A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Trust, Marriage, Sweet

  Michel de Montaigne (1980). “Essays”

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• Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Wife, Irises

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• It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year.

  Flora Thompson

  Summer, Fashion, Winter

  Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

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• Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Perseverance, Men, Giving

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• Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Deceit, Naked, Body

  Francine Du Plessix Gray (1987). “Adam & Eve and the City: Selected Non Fiction”

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