"It is not hard work that is dreary;…" — Edith Hamilton
"It is not hard work that is dreary; it is superficial work."
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43 Quotes by Edith Hamilton
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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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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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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that…
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More Dreary Quotes
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All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of…
— Alan Watts
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the…
— William Wordsworth
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If there is anything that can bind the heavenly mind of man to this dreary exile of our earthly home…
— Johannes Kepler
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He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand'…
— Thomas Carlyle
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I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment,…
— Anthony Hopkins
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We…
— Terence McKenna
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
— Michael Leunig
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