I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Friendship
The sweetest roamer is a boy’s young heart.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Children
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
Topics: Instincts
Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Risk
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Defeat, Success & Failure, Failure
The sense that some one else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Service, Compassion, Kindness
Oh happy we, the first-born heirs of nature,
For whom the Heavenly Sun delays his light!
He by the sweets of every mortal creature
Tempers eternal beauty to our sight;
And by the glow upon love’s earthly feature
Maketh the path of our departure bright.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Children
The willingness to take risks is our grasp of faith.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Risk
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Aptness, Appropriateness, Contentment
Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Morning, Nature
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Artists, Art, Arts
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.
—George Edward Woodberry
Topics: Age, Reflection, Live-now
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Bayard Taylor American Poet
- Harold Bloom American Literary Critic, Author
- Anatole Broyard American Literary Critic
- Van Wyck Brooks American Critic
- Diana Trilling American Literary Critic
- F. L. Lucas English Literary Critic
- John Churton Collins English Literary Critic
- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey Scottish Judge, Critic
- William Ernest Henley English Poet
- Persius Roman Poet
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