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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

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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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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... 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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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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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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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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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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...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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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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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
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The fundamental facts about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priest had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greeks said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.
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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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