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Not to see

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Thomas Carlyle

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly. Antonio Porchia

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. Ayn Rand

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. Swami Sivananda

When you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all. Robert M. Pirsig

If we blink the eyes in order not to see a wicked person, how shall we be able to see a good person? Xhosa Proverb

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