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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
Edith Hamilton
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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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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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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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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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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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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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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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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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)
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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 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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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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