 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1916 - 322 pages
...We have only been able to touch it in this article in some of its more outstanding parts. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearlv at hand. — Carlvle. WHEN THE A-FALLING IN LEAVES ARE THE BORDERS. ' While nature strips her... | |
 | Joseph French Johnson - 1917 - 370 pages
...the sirens who sought to charm Ulysses from his true course. As Thomas Carlyle has said: "Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." It does not follow that a youth should never come from the country to the city, or that a business... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pages
...the words of Goethe, Carlyle, Walt Whitman, and others. Osier also quotes from Carlyle : " Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." Osier himself counsels a system of what he calls " (lay-tight compartments " for the voyage... | |
 | Gustavus Sylvester Kimball - 1918 - 130 pages
...seize this opportunity, and make the most of it. It made him Sir Joseph Paxton. Our grand business then is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. I read not long ago of an office boy, red headed, freckled and grotesquely homely. His features... | |
 | Sir William Osler - 1918 - 68 pages
...there was the 1 The Rev. WA Johnson, the founder o'j the school. B 17 familiar sentence — "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies olearly at hand." A commonplace sentiment enough, but it hit and stuck and helped, and was the starting-point... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1984 - 548 pages
...bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Know'st thou Yesterday, its aim and reason; Work'st thou well Today, for worthy things? Calmly... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1903 - 338 pages
...not a dreamer or a theorist. He practically illustrates the saying of Thomas Carlyle : ' ' Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. " He is somewhat above medium size, strongly built, graceful, with a well-poised head on broad... | |
 | Earl A. Grollman - 1988 - 162 pages
...can) before deciding to immediately sell your house or change jobs. Thomas Carlyle said: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand." Determine to live again Readjustment does not come overnight. Make a start to put the stars... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pages
...Thomas Carlyle, he had come across the sentence that had been his magic talisman ever since: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." A single inspired sentence, it instantly answered his needs and shaped the course of his future.... | |
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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. 
