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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

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 suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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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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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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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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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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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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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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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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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...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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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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