Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
instruction findings
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
education practice mind
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
heaven littles hell
This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.
simple knack illusion
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
men clothes suits
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
lying anger men
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
practice errors together
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
done action known
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
art life-and-love government
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
two world four
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
block men thinking
Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
gone world events
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
eye mean yellow
To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
past attractive drained
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.