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Vision Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
- No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they…
- The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
- No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
- I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
- Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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