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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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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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One form of religion perpetually gives way to another if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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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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