The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Quote by Edith Hamilton

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

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

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

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

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

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

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

To set up what you like against what you dislike - this is the disease...

To set up what you like against what you dislike - this is the disease...

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying...

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying...

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the...

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of...

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of...