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LAW & HISTORY > essayist, historian > Thomas Carlyle
When an oak-tree...
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When an oak-tree is felled the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4 1795-1881), Scottish essayist, historian; He was considered one of the era's great sages and man of letters; wrote The French Revolution, 1837.