Thomas Adams
Thomas Adams
Architect and former President of Landscape Architects. He was known for urban planning projects like The Hydrostone and Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth10 September 1871
christian blessing ends
Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
prayer blessed praying
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.
christian art blessing
Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same verdict. How certain thou art to die, thou knowest; how soon to die, thou knowest not. Measure not thy life with the longest; that were to piece it out with flattery. Thou canst name no living man, not the sickest, which thou art sure shall die before thee.
christian horse tired
Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul.
christian pain blessing
He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.
children wife sorrow
A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.
atheist believe hypocrite
The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
prayer enemy ears
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.
temptation half way
Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.
soul deputies conscience
Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.
pie devil clerks
The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.
change thinking done
He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.
men water greed
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
healing sick prevention
Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.