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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 lies clearly at hand. – Thomas Carlyle

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. – Thomas Carlyle

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Duty
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. – Thomas Carlyle

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Music
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Thomas Carlyle
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The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not…. – Thomas Carlyle

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Time
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. – George Bernard Shaw

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You can’t file a conversation. – P.C. Woodhull, c.1940s

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I must create a system or be enslaved by another mans I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. – William Blake

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Business

I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When youre quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, constantly as the expert in the business people assume youre a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image. – Barbara Corcoran

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Business

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What you discover about people you try not to offend is that you can offend them without trying. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any. – Lao Tzu

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon

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