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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 Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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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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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 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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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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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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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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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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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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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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