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The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.
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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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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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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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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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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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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The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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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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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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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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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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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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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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