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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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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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Outraged
Beside
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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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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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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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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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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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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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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 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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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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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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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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