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George Edward Woodberry
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“Home from the lonely cities, time's wreck, and the naked woe, Home through the clean great waters where freemen's pennants blow, Home to the land men dream of, where all the nations go.”
George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) first seen 1899 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Homeward Bound", in Wild Eden (1899), p. 45
“The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.”
George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Agathon", in The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems (1890), p. 51
“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 in.”
George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Charles Battell Loomis, Jr., Beverly, Massachusetts (December 31, 1911), in The Bookman, vol. 74, no. 5 (January–February, 1932), p. 544
“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American (1912), p. 44
“I think that the sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love,—at least I think it is so with you.”
George Edward Woodberry (1855–1930) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Charles Battell Loomis, Jr., Beverly, Massachusetts (March 7, 1913), in The Bookman, vol. 74, no. 6 (March, 1932), p. 655
“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 (1855–1930) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913 (Merrymount Press, 1914), p. 20