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
father men enemy
His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.
men may election
A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
peace men thinking
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.
men water greed
The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
men grace body
Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.
men well-being wells
Woman takes her being from man, man takes his well being from woman.
men differences faces
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.
men heaven camels
The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.
men god-love fearful
No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.
christian fall men
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
average citizens effect energy fine good people pleasant
I do not think that the effect of good environment, of fine buildings, of pleasant homes, upon the character, temperament, will, disposition, and energy of the people sufficiently dawns upon the average citizen.
casual continue enduring instead labor nervous shall turn ugly
So long as casual labor broods in squalid lairs, in sunless streets, and ugly dwellings are its only habitation, we shall continue to turn out nervous manikins instead of enduring men.
air easily hath shall till unsavory within
You shall easily know a vainglorious man: his own commendation rumbles within him till he hath bulked it out, and the air of it is unsavory
citizens forward further improvement life rewarded shall step
If you do this, we all of us shall be rewarded by the betterment of our towns, the beautification of our streets, the improvement of our suburbs; we shall have made one step forward to still further elevating, improving, and dignifying the life of our citizens.