“A fickle heart is the only constant in this world”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
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“There is nothing in this World constant but Inconstancy”
A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind (1707)
Context: ALL Rivers go to the Sea, but none return from it. Xerxes wept when he beheld his Army, to consider that in less than a Hundred Years they would be all Dead. Anacreon was' Choakt with a Grape-stone, and violent Joy Kills as well as violent Grief. There is nothing in this World constant but Inconstancy; yet Plato thought that if Virtue would appear to the World in her own native Dress, all Men would be Enamoured with her. But now since Interest governs the World, and Men neglect the Golden Mean, Jupiter himself, if he came on the Earth would be Despised, unless it were as he did to Danae in a Golden Shower. For Men nowadays Worship the Rising Sun, and not the Setting.
“The sigh that rends thy constant heart
Shall break thy Edwin's too.”
Source: The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), Ch. 8, The Hermit (Edwin and Angelina), st. 33.
“The only constant in the technology industry is change.”
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“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
Letter to Frederick J. Gregg (undated, Sligo, late summer, 1886)
“Valuable people are in constant extinction. When you can find one, keep it in your heart.”
Original: (it) Persone di valore sono in continua estinzione. Quando riesci a trovarne una, custodiscila nel cuore.
Source: prevale.net
“Valuable people are in constant extinction. When you can find one, keep it in your heart.”
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1990s, Ed Gordon interview (1994)