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Make no little
plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably
themselves will not be realized. Make big plans. Aim high in
hope and work. Remembering that a noble, logical diagram
once recorded will not die.
-- Daniel H. Burnham
1846-1912, American
Architect, Leader of the Chicago School
The road winds
up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it
curves from sight -- And yet no man would foolishly contend.
That where he sees it not, it makes an end.
-- Emma Carleton
I have seen
gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you
look into a higher country.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
No man sees
far, most see no farther than their noses.
-- Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish
Philosopher, Author
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Aim for the
highest.
-- Andrew Carnegie
1835-1919, American
Industrialist, Philanthropist
Objects close
to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and
splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is
with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of
eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories
with a little shining dust.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
1814-1880, American Author,
Clergyman
The world
values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay,
it values all men in proportion as they partake of the
character of seers. The Elgin Marbles and a decision of John
Marshall are valued for the same reason. What we feel in
them is a painstaking submission to facts beyond the
author's control, and to ideas imposed upon him by his
vision. So with Beethoven's Symphonies, with Adam Smith's
''Wealth of Nations'' -- with any conceivable output of the
human mind of which you approve. You love them because you
say, ''These things were not made, they were seen.''
-- John Jay Chapman
1862-1933, American Author
The farther
backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to
see.
-- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
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