Edith Hamilton Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• 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

  Book, Humility, Unique

  "Three Greek Plays". Book by Edith Hamilton, 1937.

• There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Music, Beautiful, Failure

• No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.

  Edith Hamilton

  Beautiful, Effort, Facts

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