Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
past names history
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
reading saws may
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
men fire suffering
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
stars dark shining
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
men soul immortal
Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
believe men light
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
brother men mystical
The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.
victory doe wells
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
believe years training
If you will believe me, you who are young, yours is the golden season of life. As you have heard it called, so it verily is, the seed-time of life; in which, if you do not sow, or if you sow tares instead of wheat, you cannot expect to reap well afterwards, and you will arrive at little. And in the course of years when you come to look back, if you have not done what you have heard from your advisers,-and among many counsellors there is wisdom,-you will bitterly repent when it is too late.
yield goal training
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.
political nicknames economics
Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy
economics professors respectable
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
heart law tables
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
men reality lost-friendship
Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.