"He was there beside her, yet she was……" — Edith Hamilton
"He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life."
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43 Quotes by Edith Hamilton
Edith Hamilton has 43 quotes on this site.
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So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to…
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When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never…
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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…
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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…
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet,…
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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,…
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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…
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the…
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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…
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
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The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit.
— Teresa of Avila
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of…
— Teresa of Avila
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
— Honore de Balzac
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Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
— Aeschylus
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But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.
— Usain Bolt
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Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that…
— Moustapha Akkad
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I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
— Michael Caine
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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk…
— Albert Camus
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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