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“Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.”
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John Robert Seeley
#Beautiful Quotes
#Interesting Quotes
#May Quotes
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“History without politics descends to mere Literature.”
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John Robert Seeley
#History Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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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.”
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John Robert Seeley
Source : John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.166, Cambridge University Press
#Sight Quotes
#History Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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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.”
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John Robert Seeley
#Real Quotes
#Book Quotes
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“No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.”
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John Robert Seeley
Source : Sir John Robert Seeley (1871). “Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ”, p.14
#Safe Quotes
#Virtue Quotes
#Enthusiastic Quotes
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“We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.”
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John Robert Seeley
Source : John Robert Seeley (2010). “The Expansion of England: Two Courses of Lectures”, p.8, Cambridge University Press
#Mind Quotes
#Half Quotes
#World Quotes
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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. There is food for contemplation which never runs short; you are gazing at an object which is always growing clearer, and yet always, in the very act of growing clearer, presenting new mysteries.”
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John Robert Seeley
Source : "Natural Religion".
#Running Quotes
#Nature Quotes
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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.”
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John Robert Seeley
#Rejection Quotes
#Not Good Enough Quotes
#Feelings Quotes
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“History is the school of statesmanship.”
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John Robert Seeley
#School Quotes
#Statesmanship Quotes
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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.”
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John Robert Seeley
Source : Sir John Robert Seeley (1866). “Ecce Homo: A Survey of the Life and Work of Jesus Christ”, p.330
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