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• Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

  Edith Hamilton

  Two, Three, Knows

  Edith Hamilton (2017). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition”, p.431, Hachette UK

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• ..,No love cannot leave where there is no trust..,~cupid and psyche..,"Greek mythology of Edith Hamilton

  Edith Hamilton

  Greek, No Trust, Hamilton

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• ... clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.

  Edith Hamilton

  Thinking, People, Literature

  Edith Hamilton (1964). “The Ever-Present Past”

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• One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the new ideas appear they are seen at first as a deadly foe threatening to make religion perish from the earth; but in the end there is a deeper insight and a better life with ancient follies and prejudices gone.

  Edith Hamilton

  Ideas, Giving, Religion

  Edith Hamilton (1993). “The Greek Way”, p.225, W. W. Norton & Company

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• sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.

  Edith Hamilton

  Thinking, Mind, Function

  Edith Hamilton (2010). “The Greek Way”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

  Edith Hamilton

  Soul, Suffering, Tragedy

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)

  Edith Hamilton

  Mean, Broken, Soul

  Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

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• The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

  Edith Hamilton

  Running, Long, Way

  Edith Hamilton (1969). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes”

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• When we speak of beauty, we're speaking of something we're more or less indifferent to.

  Edith Hamilton

  Speak, Indifferent

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• A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

  Edith Hamilton

  Light, Creative, Fossils

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

  Edith Hamilton

  Odds, Planets, Thinker

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• Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away.

  Edith Hamilton

  Poetry, Together, Pulpit

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

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• Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato contemplated Him; Aristotle produced arguments to demonstrate Him. Plato never defined Him; but Aristotle thought God through logically, and concluded with entire satisfaction to himself that He was the Unmoved Mover.

  Edith Hamilton

  Plato, Believe, Reality

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Echo of Greece”, New York : W. W. Norton

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• The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the protagonists of the mind.

  Edith Hamilton

  Greek, Mind, Firsts

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.

  Edith Hamilton

  Unique, Mirrors, People

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

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

  Edith Hamilton

  Mind, Literature, Facts

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

  Edith Hamilton

  Greek, Excellence, Mind

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see.

  Edith Hamilton

  Play, People, Theater

  Edith Hamilton (1957). “The Roman Way to Western Civilization”

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• No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Beautiful, Effort, Facts

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• We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Running, Teaching, Mad

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• A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

  Edith Hamilton

  Tendencies, Exaggeration, Traits

  Edith Hamilton (2017). “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, 75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Music, Beautiful, Failure

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• In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

  Edith Hamilton

  Religion, Conservative, Temper

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.

  Edith Hamilton

  Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ

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• Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

  Edith Hamilton

  Age, Said, Mark

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