Repetition Ability Remains

Famous quotes containing the words repetition, ability and/or remains:

    “It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.”
    —Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)

    “The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,—the ability to do some slight thing better. We make conquest only of husks and shells for the most part,—at least apparently,—but sometimes these are cinnamon and spices, you know.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “He shall be washed as white as snow,
    By all the martyr’d virgins kist,
    While the True Church remains below
    Wrapt in the old miasmal mist.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)