 | Rosa Nouchette Carey - 1906 - 468 pages
...luxuriously on the rug at his mistress's feet. CHAPTER IX 'TWO LAME DOGS' Our grand business is, not to sec what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — CARLYLE. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. — King Henry IV. FRANCES'... | |
 | Robert Stuart MacArthur - 1907 - 324 pages
...who think and do, and not those who simply dream of doing. Wise are the words of Carlyle, " Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." It is evermore true that our best things are near us, did we have skill to discover their worth.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 pages
...not a faculty of body, miud, or son!, whose bwof improvement in not energy. — EB Hall. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Carlyle. Onlv actions give to life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm. —... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...a faculty ' of body, mind, or soul, whose bw of improvement is not energy. — EB llall. Our grand p over the fields of law on Pegasus, nor fly across them on the wing liée clearly at hand. — Carlyle. Only actions give to life its strength, as only moderation gives... | |
 | Robert Stuart MacArthur - 1909 - 450 pages
...Instead of doubted, Had I warred, instead of wept. — Caroline A twater Mason. GARLYLE said, " Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." It is evermore true that our best things are near us, did we have skill to discern their worth.... | |
 | 1909 - 1226 pages
...action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.— Herbert Spencer. Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. — Carlyle. Mortuary Record BLANKENSHIP— Brother LM Blankenship, Division 49, Moberly, Mo.... | |
 | Bridget Ellen Burke - 1909 - 264 pages
...noble life in the order. — Adapted from " The Little Flowers of St. Francis!' jt jt jt Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies closely at hand. — Carlyle. jt j* jt I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with... | |
 | William James Heaton - 1910 - 328 pages
...virtues of manly honesty and truthfulness." CHAPTEE II WHAT ABOUT ENGLAND? "Our grand business in life is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." — CARLYLE. BUT we turn to our own country, without attempting a more detailed description... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1910 - 872 pages
...Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears. Shakspeart. Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies closely at hand- Carlyle, Death's but a path that must be trod If man would ever pass to God. Panieli.... | |
 | 1911 - 458 pages
...passing by, Is the rain with sunshine woven — Then the rainbow spans the sky. ANONYMOUS Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies closely at hand. THOMAS CARLYLE Defer not till to-morrow to be wise ; To-morrow's sun for thee may... | |
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. 
