Thomas Carlyle Quotes

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle

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• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Silence
  • Breeze
  • Echoes