Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
religious men religion
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
night heaven religion
An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
laughter mean
Laughter means sympathy.
world woe judgment
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
mean reality men
Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
lying devil body
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.
emptiness empty loud
The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
men higher blessedness
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
men interesting smallest
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
men heaven aspiration
A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
change reform moral
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
ocean men swimmer
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
rushing swim rolling
Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
miracle mystery arcs
We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.