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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. Thomas Carlyle
Great Unconscious Between Difference Conscious Jesus Socrates
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. Thomas Carlyle
You Unjust Done Succeeded
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Thomas Carlyle
Man Once Laughed Bad Altogether Heartily Who Wholly
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Thomas Carlyle
Laughter Very Privileges Human Confined Being Reason Human Species Species
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Thomas Carlyle
Action Solid Well Narrative Linear Breadth Height Depth
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. Thomas Carlyle
Man Thought Action Though Noblest End
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. Thomas Carlyle
Happiness Work Enough About Only Troubles Person Get Brave Done Themselves Asking Ever
No violent extreme endures. Thomas Carlyle
Extreme Endures Violent
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. Thomas Carlyle
Matter Understanding Imagination Part Poor Company
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. Thomas Carlyle
Work Hard Work Suffering Nation Pleasant Without How How Much Reform Person Grievous Themselves Much Hard Less
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt. Thomas Carlyle
You Girl Pretty Girl Kiss Doubt Benefit Pretty Give Always Whether Ever Her
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. Thomas Carlyle
Life Music Day You Every Day World Dance Will Every Rings Born Through Like Make Burst Whole March
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. Thomas Carlyle
Man Shoes Unless Rightly He Make Devout Cannot Manner Pair
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. Thomas Carlyle
Man Finite He Him Because His Cunning Greatness Infinite Quite Cannot Which Unhappiness Bury
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes. Thomas Dewar
Man Judge Wife Clothes His
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. Thomas Erskine
Justice Constitution Integrity Dignity Valuable Will Independence Impartial Hazards Part Most Without Existence Which Bar English Assert Ever
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. Thomas Guthrie
World Feeling Generous Safe Leave Influences Cooling Now
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. Thomas Reid
Architecture Rules Never House Built Ship Navigation
Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork. Tom Conti
Procrastination Worst Paperwork Out Habit Many
It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really. Tom Conti
Good You Theatre Nothing Television Good Thing No-One Between Audience Want Movies Really Fun Thing Good Fun
I have a natural resistance to being humiliated. Tom Conti
Natural Humiliated Being Resistance
I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet. Tom Conti
Saying Day Writing One Day Something Songs Like Them Keep
Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me. Tom Conti
Me Related Out Find Some Napoleon Said Came Were Surprised Friends Shock Quite
If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids. Tom Conti
You Rest Men Jimmy Jimmy Stewart Kids See Cary Grant Like Look Looked Looks None Audience Boy Always Go Mature Want Movies Them Grant
But once you have satisfied your material needs, which I think every wealth creator should - the house, the car, the plane, the boat - what comes next? Tom Hunter
Needs You Wealth Car Satisfied Every Think Once House Material Which Boat Plane Next Should Your Creator
The man who dies rich, dies in disgrace. Tom Hunter
Man Rich Dies Disgrace Who
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