George Edward Woodberry Quotes

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  Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

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• To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Happiness, Contentment, Half

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• Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Nature, Doe, Sensible

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• The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Helping Others, People, Care

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Education, School, Men

  George Edward Woodberry (1899). “Heart of Man”

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• "Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

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  Faithful, Excellence, Desire

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Faith, Risk, Willingness

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• You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Ideas, Promise, Enough

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• Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Want, Factors

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• If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Heart, Son, Boys

  George Edward Woodberry (1890). “The North Shore Watch and Other Poems”

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• I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Friendship, Communication, Yield

  George Edward Woodberry (1933). “Selected letters of George Edward Woodberry”

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• Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Ideas, Intellectual, Vitality

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• We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Running, Art, Advancement

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• Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Disappointment, Awful, Genuine

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• A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Independent, Expression, Genius

  George Edward Woodberry (1916). “Shakespeare: An Address”

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• Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Morning, Boss, Next

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• A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Real, Titles, Deeds

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

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  Symbolism, Hidden Meaning, Deals

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• What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Book, Men, Race

  George Edward Woodberry (1910). “The Inspiration of Poetry”

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• The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.

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  Men, Mind, Identity

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.

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  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses”

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• One can re-create what was in the mind of a mathematician a thousand years ago, recapture the truth of the intellect wherever it may have once come to light; but the image of art, that infinite variable of perception and expression in the individual, - that is not easily re-created, at least, not with certainty and in its original fulness.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Art, Light, Expression

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• If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Mean, Race, Ideas

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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