Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.

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• Edith Hamilton:

  Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without

• Edith Hamilton:

  When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be fre

• Edith Hamilton:

  Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that wh

• Edith Hamilton:

  A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day sho

• Edith Hamilton:

  None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltati

• Edith Hamilton:

  Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

• Edith Hamilton:

  The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

• Edith Hamilton:

  To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

• Edith Hamilton:

  The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wi

• Edith Pearlman:

  I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it