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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

- Horace Smith

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

- Joseph Addison

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

- W. Somerset Maugham

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

- Bernard Berenson

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

- Oscar Wilde

Conservatism is the maintenance of conventions already in force.

- Thorstein Veblen

There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.

- Mark Twain

People who honestly mean to be true, really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

- Edward Noyes Westcott

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

- Horace Smith

Shoemaker, stick to your last.

- Pliny