John Robert Seeley
Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.Collection: Life
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.Collection: Mind
History without politics descends to mere Literature.Collection: History
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 politics.Collection: Sight
History is the school of statesmanship.Collection: School
No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.Collection: Motivational
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; the mind is haunted with the sense of a vast unity not yet discoverable or nameable.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Real
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, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.Collection: Rejection
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 trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.Collection: Wall