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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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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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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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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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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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