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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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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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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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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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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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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.
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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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