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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Mental pleasure are never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Progress, far from consisting of change, depends on retentiveness... Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, By reiteration chiefly.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.