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..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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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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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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