Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand. – Thomas Carlyle

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The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. – Mary Baker Eddy

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There exists only the present instant… a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. – Meister Eckhart

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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present. – Alice Morse Earle

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In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break werent there when I came back. Its like, Wait a second – what happened here? It was a real learning experience. Ive paid my dues, I will tell you that. – Chris ODonnell

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I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him. – Francois Rabelais

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