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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Fullness Hazards Life

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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Active Belief Faith Passive

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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 to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Animal Die Enables Him Know Make Make Up Man Mind Rest Separates Spirit Together Truth Up Us Which World

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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Counter Facts Go Human Human Nature Nature Theories

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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Chaos Dispense Facts Itself Makes Mind Only

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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Art Between Conflict Demands Expression Great Great Art Solution Within Without World

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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.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Again Athens Free Freedom Freedom From Most Never Responsibility Then Wished

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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 people as no historical reconstruction can.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Day Great Historical Knowledge Literature People Quality Real Reconstruction Show Textbook Them Writings

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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 poetry.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Alchemy Exaltation Less None Nothing Pain Poet Poetry Than Tragedy Write

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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

~Edith Hamilton

Topics: Able Being Caught Educated Thought Up World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: August 12th, 1867

Died: May 31st, 1963

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