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• The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles.

  Albert Mackey

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Principles

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• A fav'rite has no friend!

  Thomas Gray

  Friendship, No Friends

  Thomas Gray, Thomas PARK (F.S.A.) (1808). “The poetical works of Thomas Gray, etc. With a separate titlepage bearing the imprint of John Sharpe, London, dated 1805”, p.12

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• To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

  Lance Henriksen

  Beautiful, Wonderful, Passages

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• LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.... No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation, penance and remembrance can produce love in themselves. None of these is necessarily a sign of love. On the contrary, those who sigh loudly and weep and wail have yet to experience love. Love sets on fire the one who finds it. At the same time it seals his lips so that no smoke comes out

  Meher Baba

  Love, Fire, Self

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• Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Art, Dancing

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• What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did not dominate in these associations, as the writers, whom I have just mentioned, pretended; they were not necessarily the soul, the head, the grand master of masonry as Gougenot des Mousseaux affirms. It is certain however that there were Jews in the very cradle of masonry, kabbalist Jews, as some of the rites which have been preserved prove.

  Bernard Lazare

  Soul, Secret, Association

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• Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.

  Heinrich Heine

  Night, Skulls, Brain

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of travel”, p.173

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• And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one’s Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites.

  Stephen King

  Uncles, Heart, Autumn

  Stephen King (2008). “'Salem's Lot”, p.201, Anchor

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• I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

  Aeschylus

  Silence, Speech, Misery

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• In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Strong, Sex

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.286, Routledge

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• The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

  Carl Sandburg

  Children, Drinking, Simple

  Quoted in Personalia, the Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1970).

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• Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping.

  Victor Hugo

  House, Splits, Splendor

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.211, Wildside Press LLC

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• In course of time the slow advance of knowledge, which has dispelled so many cherished illusions, convinced at least the more thoughtful portion of mankind that the alterations of summer and winter, of spring and autumn, were not merely the result of their own magical rites, but that some deeper cause, some mightier power, was at work behind the shifting scenes of nature.

  James G. Frazer

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• La ve  rite   existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

  Georges Braque

  Lying

  'Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52' p. 20

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• Before games are played in common, no rules in the proper sense can come into existence. Regularities and ritualized schemas are already there, but these rites, being the work of the individual, cannot call forth that submission to something superior to the self which characterizes the appearance of any rule.

  Jean Piaget

  Self, Games, Common

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

  Roger Scruton

  Modern Youth, Adults, Culture

  Roger Scruton (2006). “Modern Culture”, p.127, A&C Black

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• the place (Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, fh) is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.. (it) looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge - essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there.

  Marsden Hartley

  Easter, Islands, Race

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• Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Rejection, Painful

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Bloodchild: And Other Stories”, p.128, Open Road Media

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• L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

  Albert Camus

  Ideas, Fundamentals, Firsts

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• A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Creativity, Desire

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• Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

  Craig Brewer

  Footloose, Sometimes, Passages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.

  Ralph Ellison

  Growing Up, Attitude, Our Society

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• The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite.

  Laozi

  War, Funeral, Sorrow

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• I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Country, Thinking, Serious

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• It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

  Bob Seger

  Philosophy, Higher Ground, Passages

  Song: Rite Of Passage

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