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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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In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never…
— Christian D. Larson
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We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which…
— Edward Dahlberg
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Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at…
— Thomas Merton
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We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.
— Edith Hamilton
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Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will…
— Frederick Buechner
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