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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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 greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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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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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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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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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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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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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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...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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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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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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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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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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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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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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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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