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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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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 Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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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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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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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.
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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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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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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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