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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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Classical Scholar
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Beware
Thoughts
Known
Tell
Three
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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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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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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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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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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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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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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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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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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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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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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