Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
breathing vulgarity-is comfort
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
wisdom men infinite
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
work men majesty
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
art doubt black
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
mind rise-above metaphysics
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
art book reading
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
lying
Lies exist only to be extinguished.
men monsters world
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
wall home house
My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.
attitude names mouths
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
evil wicked alive
The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
believe inspiration names
What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!
casting-off law growth
The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.
customs
Custom doth make dotards of us all.