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Quote by Blaise Pascal
It is superstitious to put ones hopes in formalities, but arrogant

It is superstitious to put ones hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. – Blaise Pascal

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In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. – Blaise Pascal

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Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this. – Blaise Pascal

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Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves. – Blaise Pascal

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Ceremony was but devised at first to set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, recanting goodness, sorry ere Tis shown; but where there is true friendship, there needs none. – William Shakespeare

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Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. – Chinese Proverb

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Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic. – Derek Walcott

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A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man. – E. M. Forster

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