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Edith Hamilton has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we,…
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Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate…
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When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to…
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Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated…
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Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life.
— Swami Vivekananda
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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…
— Edith Hamilton
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No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock…
— Margaret Sanger
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We count, in the future as in the past, on the driving power of individual initiative, on the incentive of fair private…
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