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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.


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EDITH HAMILTON None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations...
VIJALI HAMILTON The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
SCOTT HAMILTON I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self...
HAMILTON MABIE Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard befor...
HAMILTON JORDAN Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many o...
ADAM HAMILTON We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in...
ADAM HAMILTON