History is the school of statesmanship.
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 is the school of statesmanship. - 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… - 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…
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.
History without politics descends to mere Literature. - John Robert Seeley
History without politics descends to mere Literature.
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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