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"The voice welling up out of this little man is terrific, Harry had noticed it at the house, but here, in the nearly empty church, echoing off the walnut knobs and memorial plaques and high arched rafters, beneath the tall central window of Jesus taking off into the sky with a pack of pastel apostles for a launching pad, the timbre is doubled, richer, with a rounded sorrowful something Rabbit hadn't noticed hitherto, gathering and pressing the straggle of guests into a congregation, subduing any fear that this ceremony might be a farce. Laugh at ministers all you want, they have the words we need to hear, the ones the dead have spoken."
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"Ceremony is essential to humans: It's a circle that we draw around important events to separate the momentous from the ordinary. And ritual is a sort of magical safety harness that guides us from one stage of our lives into the next, making sure we don't stumble or lose ourselves along the way. Ceremony and ritual march us carefully right through the center of our deepest fears about change."
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"Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week."
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"Long ago the signalling had become no more than a meaningless ritual, now maintained by an animal which had forgotten to learn and a robot which had never known to forget."
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"When the Master entered the great temple he asked about everything. Someone said, 'Who will say that this son of the man of Zou knows about ritual? When he enters the temple, he asks about everything'. The Master heard of it and said, 'This is the ritual'."
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"That's the biggest purpose of religious gathering: permission to look terrible in public. We used to go to church to confess our worst behaviour, to be heard and forgiven, then to be redeemed and accepted back into our community."
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"Be noble in every thought And in every deed!"
Morality
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
Books
"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."
Time
"The nearer the dawn the darker the night."
Life
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."
Love
"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."
Passion
"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
Grief
"Into each life some rain must fall."
Life
"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
Success
"In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity."
Character
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