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 faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. – Blaise Pascal

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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. – Blaise Pascal

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Ceremony is the smoke of friendship. – Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

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