CONSIDERATION
Consideration, like an angel came
And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him,
Leaving his body as a paradise.
To envelope and contain celestial spirits.
What you have said
I will consider; what you have to say
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Julius Conor. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 168.
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give
Before a sleeping giant.
Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 146.
CONSISTENCY
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| text = <poem>Of right and wrong he taught
Truths as refin'd as ever Athens heard;
And (strange to tell) he practis'd what he preach'd.
John Armstrong—Art of Preserving Health.
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| text = <poem>Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne,
Comparisons are cruele:
Fine pictures suit in frames as fine,
Consistencie's a jewell.
For thee and me coarse cloathes are best,
Rude folks in homelye raiment drest,
Wife Joan and goodman Robin.
Jolly Robyn-Roughhead. (Fake ballad. Appeared in American Newspaper, 1867.}})
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| text = <poem>Nemo doctus unquam mutationem consilii inconstantiam dixit esse.
No well-informed person has declared a
change of opinion to be inconstancy.
Cicero—Ep. ad Atticum.
| place = Bk. XVI. 8.
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| text = <poem>A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of
little minds, adored by little statesmen and
philosophers and divines.
Emerson—Essays. Self-Reliance.
With consistency a great soul has simply
nothing to do. * * * Speak what you think
to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and
to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in
hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day.
Emerson—Essays. Self-Rdiance.
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| text = <poem>Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man:
He's been on all sides that give places or pelf;
But consistency still wuz a part of his plan;
He's been true to one party, and that is, himself;—
So John P.
Robinson, he
Sez he shall vote for Gineral C.
| author = Lowell
| work = The Biglow Papers. Series I. No. 3.
Inconsistency is the only thing in which men
aro consistent.
Horatio Smith—Tin Trumpet. Vol. I. P.
273.
Cantilenam eandem canis.
You are harping on the same string.
Terence—Phormio. III. 2. 10.
CONSPIRACY
Conspiracies no sooner should be formed
Than executed.
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| work = Cato. Act I. Sc. 2.
O conspiracy,
Sham'st thou to show thy dang'rous brow by
night,
When evils are most free?
Julius Cwsar. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 76.
Take no care
Who chafes, who frets; and where conspirers are:
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be.
Macbeth. Act D7. Sc. 1. L. 89.
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wrong'd and mak'st his
ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.
Othello. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 142.
Open-eye conspiracy
His time doth take.
Tempest. Act II. Sc. 1. Song. L. 301.
CONSTANCY
Through perils both of wind and limb,
Through thick and thin she follow'd him.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt.I. Canto H. L. 369.
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| text = <poem>'Tis often constancy to change the mind.
| author = Hoole
| work = Metastasio. Sieves.
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| text = <poem>Changeless march the stars above,
Changeless morn succeeds to even;
And the everlasting hills,
Changeless watch the changeless heaven.
| author = Charles Kingsley
| work = Saint's Tragedy. Act
H. Sc. 2.
Abra was ready ere I call'd her name;
And, though I call'd another, Abra came.
Prior—Solomon on the Vanity of the World.
Bk.n. L. 364.
Now from head to foot
I am marble-constant : now the fleeting moon
No planet is of mine.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 238.
constancy, be strong upon my side,
Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!
have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
Julius Caesar. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 7.
I could be well moved if I were as you:
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me;
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
Julius Caesar. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 58.
