Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish essayist, historian, philosopher, and a leading writer of the Victorian era. He strongly influenced 19th-century art, literature, and philosophy.

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