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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

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 easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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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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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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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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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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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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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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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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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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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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