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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant. Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 146.

CONSISTENCY | seealso = (See also {{sc|Constancy)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | place = Bk. IV. L. 302. | note = | topic = | page = 132 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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.}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Emerson}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. Emerson—Essays. Self-Reliance. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 132 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Hoole}} under {{sc|Constancy}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 132 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = Addison | 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 132 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 132 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 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. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Spenser; also Dryden}} under {{sc|Poetry}} and "Through Thick and Thin" under {{sc|Proverbs}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 'Tis often constancy to change the mind. | author = Hoole | work = Metastasio. Sieves. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Emerson}} under {{sc|Consistency}}, and {sc|Cicero}} under {{sc|Opinion}}) | topic = | page = }}

