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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;… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/he-who-studies-it-nature-has-continually-the-exquisite-pleasure-of/)

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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;… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/he-who-studies-it-nature-has-continually-the-exquisite-pleasure-of-2/)

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## More by John Robert Seeley

> [History without politics descends to mere Literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/history-without-politics-descends-to-mere-literature/)

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> [No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/no-virtue-is-safe-that-is-not-enthusiastic/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/no-man-saw-the-building-of-the-new-jerusalem-the-workmen-crowded/)

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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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/he-who-studies-it-nature-has-continually-the-exquisite-pleasure-of/)

[John Robert Seeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-robert-seeley/)

> [ He who studies it \[Nature\] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/he-who-studies-it-nature-has-continually-the-exquisite-pleasure-of-2/)

[John Robert Seeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-robert-seeley/)

> [A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/a-grain-of-real-knowledge-of-genuine-controllable-conviction-will/)

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> [History is the school of statesmanship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/history-is-the-school-of-statesmanship/)

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> [We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/we-seem-as-it-were-to-have-conquered-and-peopled-half-the-world-in-a/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/politics-are-vulgar-when-they-are-not-liberalised-by-history-and/)

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> [Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-robert-seeley/life-may-not-be-beautiful-but-it-is-interesting/)

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