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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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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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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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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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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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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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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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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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