John Robert Seeley Quotes

• Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

  John Robert Seeley

  Life, Beautiful, Interesting

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• We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

  John Robert Seeley

  Mind, Half, World

  John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• History without politics descends to mere Literature.

  John Robert Seeley

  History, Literature, Mere

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• Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

  John Robert Seeley

  Sight, History, Literature

  John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.166, Cambridge University Press

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• History is the school of statesmanship.

  John Robert Seeley

  School, Statesmanship

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• No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

  John Robert Seeley

  Motivational, Safe, Enthusiasm

  Sir John Robert Seeley (1871). “Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ”, p.14

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• He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion; analogies between phenomena of a different order suggest themselves and set the imagination in motion; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable.

  John Robert Seeley

  Running, Nature, Science

  "Natural Religion".

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• A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.

  John Robert Seeley

  Real, Book, Knowledge

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• It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.

  John Robert Seeley

  Rejection, Not Good Enough, Feelings

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• No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.

  John Robert Seeley

  Wall, Men, Heaven

  Sir John Robert Seeley (1866). “Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ”, p.330

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