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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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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is 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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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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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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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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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 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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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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... 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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