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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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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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 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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of 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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... 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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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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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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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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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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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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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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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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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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