obstinacy

stubbornness

dehydration

self-sabotage

is a great vice which is unfortunately tied to a whole line of the great and masculine virtues: constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness.

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice... and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence... and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

Obstinacy is the result of a strong "won't."

is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the

is to stick to your favorite lie or truth because you know you are wrong in either case.

is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Obstinacy is the result of the will's forcing 40itself into the place of the intellect.

obstinacy, n.All

obstinacy