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.
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 rel… - John Robert Seeley
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 rel…
- John Robert Seeley
Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting. - John Robert Seeley
Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
History without politics descends to mere Literature. - John Robert Seeley
History without politics descends to mere Literature.
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… - John Robert Seeley
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…
History is the school of statesmanship. - John Robert Seeley
History is the school of statesmanship.
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden pr… - 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 pr…
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. - John Robert Seeley
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. - John Robert Seeley
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.
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 trowe… - John Robert Seeley
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 trowe…
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