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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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