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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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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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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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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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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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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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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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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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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 are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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