Edith Hamilton - Mythology (1942)

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For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

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The easy way has never in the long run commanded the allegiance of mankind.

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Tell one your thoughts, but beware of two. All know what is known to three

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He drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek and make Hell grant what Love did seek.

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Moderately wise each one should be, Not overwise, for a wise man's heart Is seldom glad (Norse Wisdom)

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The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat.

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He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

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Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

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A chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it.

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Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart.

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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other; and that union could never be broken.

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None so good that he has no faults, None so wicked that he is worth naught.

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