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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.


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