Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
real men use
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
idealism wells ideals
The actual well seen is ideal.
evil battle misery
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
art father sleep
Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.
eye littles before-and-after
Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
men poetry world
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
men poetry existence
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
agents poet stills
Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
men vision depth
It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
struggle world may
Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
mean men faces
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
wise memories past
Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.
men littles spirit
Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.
beautiful stars destiny
Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!