George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D.was an American literary critic and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
CountryUnited States of America
broken-heart morning years
"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.
life faith believe
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.
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.
running art advancement
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.
beautiful art civilization
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.
men mind identity
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.
helping-others people care
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
cities names liberty
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.
friendship communication yield
I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
disappointment awful genuine
Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.
happiness contentment half
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
inspirational success motivational-sports
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.