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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.

Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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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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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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