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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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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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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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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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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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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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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three
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A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.
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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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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.
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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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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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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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