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Letter "C" » constancy
«Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange»
«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.»
Author: Richard Nelson Bolles
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Change
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argued, constancy, firm, ground, overwhelming, stand firm, stressful, with that
«Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
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Self-esteem
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agreeableness, bestow, constancy, recommend, take back
«Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good»
«Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Affliction
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afflictions, clay, confirm, constancy, furnace, furnaces, liquefies, liquefy, liquefying, melt, noble-minded, obduracy, providence, vile
«As soon / Seek roses in December - ice in June; / Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; / Believe a woman or an epitaph, / Or any other thing that's false, before / You trust in critics.»
«Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.»
«That household virtue, most uncommon, / Of constancy to a bad, ugly woman.»
«Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion as it endures tamely moral defects of magnitude in the object of its indiscreet choice.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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constancy, defects, endures, indiscreet, partaken, partakes, partake in, partaking, tamely
«My Dear Sir: Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest? Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish; and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o»
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