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All Quotes by author - Edith Hamilton

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. "

" The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. "

" The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers. "

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

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

" When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. "

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

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