John Robert Seeley Inspirational Quotes (7)

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 trowel and pickaxe it descended out of heaven from God.

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 relationship, insecurity, lack of trust and other feelings.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

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