Constancy

Dripping water wears away a stone not with its strength, but with its constancy.

To the moon we owe not only beautiful full-moon nights and, sometimes, dark new-moon nights — and so many optical illusions on the horizon, if we believe the moon to be a huge ball in the sky — but also the constancy of our weather, the constancy of solar radiation and the basis of our existence: that for millions of years we have been able to live here in reasonable conditions.

In Daoism, to not know constancy is a tragedy.

A little Water cleares vs of this deed. How eaſie is it then? your Conſtancie Hath left you vnattended.

Punctuality is a species of Constancy, a very unfashionable quality in a Lady.

And, I do not know that I should be fond of preaching often; now and then, perhaps, once or twice in the spring, after being anxiously expected for half a dozen Sundays together; but not for a constancy; it would not do for a constancy.

Constancy of character is what is chiefly valued and sought for by naturalists.

The overall retention rate of 68 per cent indicates a robust constancy of the linguistic features investigated.

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