The world is a multiplicity, ...

The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.
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 George Edward Woodberry

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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.
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 George Edward Woodberry
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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 George Edward Woodberry
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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 George Edward Woodberry
Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.
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 George Edward Woodberry
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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 George Edward Woodberry