John Robert Seeley Quotes
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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
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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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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,…
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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,…
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History without politics descends to mere Literature.
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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…
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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…
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