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Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.
George Edward Woodberry
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George Edward Woodberry
Age: 74 †
Born: 1855
Born: May 12
Died: 1930
Died: January 2
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The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit the schools of painting and sculpture likewise and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.
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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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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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Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it.
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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.
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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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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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Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.
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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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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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Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.
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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.
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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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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You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.
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Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.
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The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.
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The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.
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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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