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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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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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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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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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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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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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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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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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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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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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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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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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