Careful Words

continual (adj.)

  Continual dropping wears away a stone.

Lucretius (95-55 b c): De Rerum Natura. i. 313.

  A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

Old Testament: Proverbs xxvii. 15.

  He that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Old Testament: Proverbs xv. 15.

Small have continual plodders ever won

Save base authority from others' books.

These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights

That give a name to every fixed star

Have no more profit of their shining nights

Than those that walk and wot not what they are.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.