Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by John Robert Seeley

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Sir John Robert Seeley, KCMG was an English Liberal historian and political essayist. A founder of British imperial history, he was a prominent advocate for the British Empire, promoting a concept of Greater Britain. This he expounded in his most widely known book The Expansion of England (1883). Whilst he was an early advocate of the establishment of political science as a distinct academic discipline, he retained a theological approach in which this was embedded.

English - Writer | 1834 - 1895

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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

John Robert Seeley

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

John Robert Seeley

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

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 principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.

John Robert Seeley

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

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 politics.

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 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.

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 relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.

John Robert Seeley

History is the school of statesmanship.

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 trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.

John Robert Seeley

Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by John Robert Seeley

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