"The mind knows only what lies near the…" — Edith Hamilton
"The mind knows only what lies near the heart."
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the…
— Pietro Aretino
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I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can…
— Alexis Arguello
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It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want,…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
— Lance Armstrong
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While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
— Francis of Assisi
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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
— Mary Astell
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help…
— Rodney Atkins
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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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