Thomas Carlyle on Duty

“Our grand business is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

“Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee," which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.”