Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
long age misery
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
hero worship hero-worship
Society is founded on hero-worship.
book men years
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
body flesh language
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
nature lying
Nature admits no lie.
home charity reform
Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
attitude men mind
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
yesterday goal starting
The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
eye men worship
Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.
work world genuine
Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
air castles logic
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
law wealth almighty
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
men demand made
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
doubt action kind
Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.