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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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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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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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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 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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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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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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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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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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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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