Edith Hamilton Quotes
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from…
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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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When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built…
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work.
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the…
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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…
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Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables,…
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no…
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything.…
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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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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…
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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.
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To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful ... was a mark of the Greek spirit...
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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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…
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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…
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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