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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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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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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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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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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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...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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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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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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