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Inconstancy falls off ere it begins. -- William Shakespeare
Inconstancy no sin will prove If we consider that we love But the same beauty in another face, Like the same body in another place. -- Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury
Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety. -- Blaise Pascal
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue. -- Suzanne Curchod
There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy. -- Jonathan Swift
There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war. -- Miguel de Cervantes
No well-informed person has declared a change of opinion to be inconstancy. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy. -- Abraham Cowley
To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy. -- Khalil Gibran
The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy. -- Blaise Pascal
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light... -- James Joyce
The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is gone.... -- William Butler Yeats
If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy. -- Jack Nicklaus
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety. -- Mary Wortley Montagu
We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy. -- Wallace Stevens
With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray, Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode; But now all smiles, and now again all frowns, She's constant only in inconstancy. -- Ovid
Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oh Lord, purify my soul from all its stains. Warm my heart with the love of thee, animate my sluggish nature and fix my inconstancy, and volatility, that I may not be weary in well doing, -- William Wilberforce
The dream on the pillow, That flits with the day, The leaf of the willow A breath wears away; The dust on the blossom, The spray on the sea; Ay,--ask thine own bosom-- Are emblems of thee. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men. -- Jane Austen
I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo! -- George Wither
I've always been very keen on Pascal, and what I'm most keen on in Pascal is his emphasis upon human wretchedness. He has a phrase which goes something like 'Anxiety, boredom and inconstancy, that is the human condition' and I've always been very partial to that. -- Simon Critchley
It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away. -- Boethius
You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy. -- Khalil Gibran
The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety. -- Blaise Pascal
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy. -- Marcus Aurelius
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Our reason is always disappointed by the inconstancy of appearances. -- Blaise Pascal
The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy. -- Abraham Cowley
Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy. -- Richard Barnfield
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light. -- James Joyce
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things. -- James C. Collins
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness. -- Joseph Addison
The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion-even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses. -- Scott Lynch
The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow? -- Philip Sidney

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