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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

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  Beautiful, Art, Civilization

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

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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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• Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

  George Edward Woodberry

  Life, Art, Voice

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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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• You may name a bronze statue 'Liberty,' or a painted figure in a city hall 'Commerce,' or a marble form in a temple 'Athene' or 'Venus;' but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Cities, Names, Liberty

  George Edward Woodberry (1914). “Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913”

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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.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Men, Mind, Identity

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

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• A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Country, Civilization, Age

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

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• I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Believe, Character, Men

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

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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.

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  Independent, Expression, Genius

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

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

  George Edward Woodberry

  Symbolism, Hidden Meaning, Deals

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• The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Fire, Creative, Emotion

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

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• Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Men, Civilization, Understanding

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

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• My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Hero, College, Slavery

  George Edward Woodberry (1912). “Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American”

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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.

  George Edward Woodberry

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

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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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• 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.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Faithful, Excellence, Desire

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

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