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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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Classical Scholar
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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 easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)
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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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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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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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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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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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