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

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  Nature, Doe, Sensible

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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.

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  Friendship, Communication, Yield

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

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

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  Happiness, Contentment, Half

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

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  Disappointment, Awful, Genuine

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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?

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  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.

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  Inspirational, Life, Faith

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

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

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  Faith, Risk, Willingness

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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.

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  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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• Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

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  Art, Hands, Romance

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

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• Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.

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  Art, Powerful, Mean

  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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• Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.

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  Art, Skeletons, Expression

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

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  Heart, Son, Boys

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

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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.

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  Men, Civilization, Understanding

  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.

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  Art, Light, Expression

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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.

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  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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

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• What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

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  Stars, Men, Thinking

  George Edward Woodberry, “On A Portrait Of Columbus”

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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.

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  Book, Men, Race

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

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

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  Want, Factors

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

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  Ideas, Promise, Enough

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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.

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  Country, Civilization, Age

  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.

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  Hero, College, Slavery

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

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

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  Believe, Character, Men

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

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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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