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Edith Hamilton
American
Writer
Born:
Aug 12
,
1867
Died:
May 31
,
1963
Facts
Great
Mind
Pain
Together
World
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
Edith Hamilton
Mind
Chaos
Only
Facts
Makes
Itself
Dispense
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
Edith Hamilton
Life
Hazards
Fullness
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
Faith
Active
Passive
Belief
When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.
Edith Hamilton
Freedom
Responsibility
Free
Athens
Never
Freedom From
Wished
Most
Again
Then
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
Truth
Man
Together
Animal
World
Mind
Rest
Spirit
Animal World
Know
Make
Him
Make Up
Enables
Up
Die
Which
Us
Separates
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
Day
Great
Knowledge
Quality
People
Reconstruction
Writings
Real
Textbook
Historical
Real Knowledge
Literature
Them
Show
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
Poet
Nothing
Pain
Exaltation
Poetry
Write
None
Tragedy
Than
Less
Alchemy
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