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Our Grand Business Is Not To See What Lies Dimly At A Distance, But To Do What Lies Clearly At Hand.
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but
to do what lies clearly at hand.
-- Thomas Carlyle
Related:
It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, but a good deal to know in which direction to point that organ.
-- W.H. Aude...
What we cry, what we contend for, in our world of toil and blood, it all lies beneath the notice of the hacker we call God.
-- Thomas Pynchon, "Vineland", 1990...
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Emerso...
Little progress can be made merely by repressing what is bad.
Our great hope lies in developing what is good....
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
Afraid to know, what lies behind the stare.
What lies before us and what lies behind us.... are small matters compared to what lies within us.
..and when we bring what lies within into the world... miracles happen! -- Henry David Thoreau...
Oh, what lies there are in kisses. Heinrich Heine
What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerso...