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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.

Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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Classical Scholar
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Mythographer
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Elbflorenz
Hamilton
Edith
Beside
Ruined
Away
Love
Life
Outraged

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Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)
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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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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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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.
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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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