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Edith Hamilton [1867-1963] American
Rank: 103
Writer, Author


Edith Hamilton was an American educator and author who was "recognized as the greatest woman Classicist." She was 62 years old when The Greek Way, her first book, was published in 1930.

Faith, Knowledge, Poetry



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Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active. Faith
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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.
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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. Knowledge
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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.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
105
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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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.
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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. Poetry
109
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
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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.
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