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Edith Hamilton Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1
There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see Picture Quote #1
Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two Picture Quote #1
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away Picture Quote #1
The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view Picture Quote #1
Myths are early science, the result of men’s first trying to explain what they saw around them Picture Quote #1
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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 Picture Quote #1
The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique Picture Quote #1
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory Picture Quote #1
He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life Picture Quote #1
The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat Picture Quote #1
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower Picture Quote #1
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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 Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within Picture Quote #1
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 Picture Quote #1
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry Picture Quote #1
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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 Quotes) There is no better indication of what the people of any period are like than the plays they go to see  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) The temper of mind that sees tragedy in life has not for its opposite the temper that sees joy. The opposite pole to the tragic view of life is the sordid view  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) Myths are early science, the result of men’s first trying to explain what they saw around them  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) 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 Quotes) The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And, at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things... have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within  (Edith Hamilton Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes)
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