Flower Constancy

Famous quotes containing the words flower and/or constancy:

“Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.”
—Thomas Browne (1605–1682)