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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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Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. – Blaise Pascal

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Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. – Blaise Pascal

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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. – Blaise Pascal

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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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