Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
self evil slavery
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
acting shapes done
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
change hate home
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
bible book men
A noble book! all men's book!
ministers benevolence
Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
christian children lying
Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan; take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
hero mean democracy
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
faith christianity quarrels
I had a lifelong quarrel with God, but in the end we made up.
fashion men clothes
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
art philosophy history
History after all is the true poetry.
funny men serious-man
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
products falsehood
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
men stupidity soul
The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
loyalty appreciation heart
In no time whatever can small critics entirely eradicate out of living men's hearts a certain altogether peculiar collar reverence for Great Men--genuine admiration, loyalty, adora-tion.