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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.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
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a people, historical, literature, no show, reconstruction, Show People, textbook, textbooks, The Writings, Writings
«Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
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A level, courtesy, imponderable, imponderables, surpassed, thins, unimpaired
«There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
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communicate, conducive, inquisitive, Libraries, surpassed, translator, translators
«When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.»
«None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.»
Author: Edith Hamilton
(Author, Educator)
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alchemy, exaltation, transmute, transmuted, transmutes, transmuting