Short Repeat Sequences

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or repeat:

    Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay.
    —“Burial of the Dead,” first anthem, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

    Careless credulity makes them the prey of those they trusted; and then they repeat their
    mistake by suspecting all alike.
    Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)