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He who does not gape after the favour of princes, as after a thing he cannot live without, does not much concern himself at the coldness of their reception and countenance, nor at the inconstancy of their wills. He who does not brood over his children or his honours with a slavish propension, ceases not to live commodiously enough after their loss.
"For the time will come," saith he, "when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." This savoureth of a spirit of levity and inconstancy, which is dangerous.
A. It is hardest to keep it, by reason of the inconstancy of man, who is quickly angry, and soon weary of a thing; hard to be gained and slippery to keep. Q. Why do serpents shun the herb rue? A. Because they are cold, dry and full of sinews, and that herb is of a contrary nature. Q. Why is a capon better to eat than a cock? A. Because a capon loses not his moisture by treading of the hens.
There, I said, was a record of my flirtation and inconstancy. I waited long for the decision, but it came in mercy. "Rise," he cried; "young men will be young men, I suppose. We shall forgive this also to your youth and penitence." "Your examination is satisfactory, he informed me," after a pause; "you can now enter the abodes of the happy." Joy leaped within me. We approached the gate.
"You have succeeded ?" "Yes; in that lies my special talent. Her inconstancy was mere frivolity, unrestrained imagination. It was necessary to change that disposition of hers, but you have no idea of her attachment to me. But really, is she not charming?" "I quite agree with you." "And yet entre nous I recognize one fault in her.
Young Powell couldn't see what there was to worry about even then. The serenity of the peaceful night seemed as vast as all space, and as enduring as eternity itself. It's true the sea is an uncertain element, but no sailor remembers this in the presence of its bewitching power any more than a lover ever thinks of the proverbial inconstancy of women. And Mr.
Plovins, I will say you are very very inconstant, to be absent all day, thus." "Miss Tarlingford, it is not inconstancy, it is billiards." "Billiards!" "Billiards. I adore them. You know nothing of billiards; women never do. They are my joy. "Dear me! I should like to do billiards." "Heaven forbid!" "Why so, Sir?" "No, I do not mean that; but ladies never play billiards."
These violent feelings often work their own destruction." "Ay: God knows they do, amazingly fast," he returned, with a sigh and a far-away look. "But what you say applies to all men. If you ever marry you must run the risk of inconstancy in the man you accept.
In the sixteenth century there lived in Hungary one Francis David, a man learned in the arts and languages, but his inconstancy and fickleness of mind led him into diverse errors, and brought about his destruction.
The people, in great joy at his taking the oath, loudly clapped and applauded him, while the nobility stood by ashamed and vexed at his inconstancy; but they submitted out of fear of the people, and all in order took the oath, till it came to Metellus's turn.
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