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Quote by Edith Hamilton
Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoom

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

Other quotes by Edith Hamilton

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. – Edith Hamilton

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Translation
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Edith Hamilton
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A peoples 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

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Knowledge
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Edith Hamilton
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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

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Poetry
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The narrower the mind, the broader the statement. – Ted Cook

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Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go. – Denis Diderot

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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. – Hosea Ballou

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