Careful Words

constancy (n.)

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.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 75.

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 (1772-1834): Christabel. Part ii.

  The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881): Speech, June 24, 1870.

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