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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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 Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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 Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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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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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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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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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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