"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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Architecture
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- "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
- "Every noble work is at first impossible."
- "A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun."
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