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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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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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...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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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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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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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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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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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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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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Our word 'idiot' comes from the Greek name for the man who took no share in public matters.
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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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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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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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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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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