No heart is pure that is not passionate; no virtue is safe … - John Robert Seeley

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No heart is pure that is not passionate; no virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. And such an enthusiastic virtue Christ was to introduce.

John Robert Seeley

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Sir John Robert Seeley (10 September 1834 – 13 January 1895) was an English historian and essayist.

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Alternative Names: Sir John Robert Seeley • J. R. Seeley

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The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.

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The difficulty of determining whether a man is or is not good has now become a commonplace of moralists and satirists. It is almost impossible to discover any test which is satisfactory, and the test which is actually applied by society is known to be unsatisfactory in the extreme.

No heart is pure that is not passionate; no virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. And such an enthusiastic virtue Christ was to introduce. - John Robert Seeley

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