History without politics descends to mere Literature.
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.
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…
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. - John Robert Seeley
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
History without politics descends to mere Literature. - 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… - 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…
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… - 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…
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…
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.
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