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2041 quotesOur grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Present
Thomas Carlyle
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Courage
Thomas Carlyle
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Churches
Thomas Carlyle
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Life and Living
Thomas Carlyle
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Ability
Thomas Carlyle
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You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
Love
Amy Carmichael
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
Fatigue
Dale Carnegie
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The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday --but never jam today.
Promises
Lewis Carroll
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
Death and Dying
Johnny Carson
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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Modern and Modernism
Angela Carter
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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.
Action
Lewis Cass
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It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Manners
John Cassis
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Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
Speech
Cato The Elder
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I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
Cooking
Katherine Cebrian
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'Tis a dainty thing to command, though 'twere but a flock of sheep.
Leaders and Leadership
Miguel De Cervantes
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God bears with the wicked, but not forever.
Wickedness
Miguel De Cervantes
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He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
Fools and Foolishness
Miguel De Cervantes
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Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.
Bragging
Miguel De Cervantes
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We look upon the enemy of our souls as a conquered foe, so he is, but only to God, not to us.
Enemies
Oswald Chambers
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No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
Decency
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Illusion
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
Pleasure
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Money
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun