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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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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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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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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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Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.
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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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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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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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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 suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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 comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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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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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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