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Edith Hamilton
American
Writer
About the author
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.
Edith Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Will
#World
#Fathers
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Edith Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Freedom
#Responsibility
#Athens
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Mind
#Facts
#Chaos
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
Edith Hamilton,
American
Writer
#World
#Being
#Thought
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Theories
#Nature
#Human nature
#Facts
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
Edith Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Life
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,
American
Writer
#Nothing
#Tragedy
#Poetry
#Pain
#Alchemy
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,
American
Writer
#World
#Man
#Spirit
#Truth
#Mind
#Rest
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
Edith Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Art
#World
#Solution
#Expression
#Conflict
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,
American
Writer
#People
#Day
#Knowledge
#Quality
#Literature
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton,
American
Writer
#Belief
#Faith