Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
political wigs nicknames
persons, with big wigs many of them and austere aspect, whom I take to be Professors of the Dismal Science… Coining “Dismal Science” as a nickname for Political Economy
sincerity sincere
The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
men world neglect
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
heaven earth summit
Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.
spirit infinite planets
A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
men highest
The Highest Being reveals himself in man.
peace lying unions
With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
stars sleep sky
Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.
truth blessed voice
Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
truth believe men
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
running spiritual age
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
littles virtue abstract
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
country comfort vote
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
depth covenant ark
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.