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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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One form of religion perpetually gives way to another if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.
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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
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When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.
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sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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