Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
real years two
What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity; not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
men fame
Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
eye tears behinds
Eyes bright, with many tears, behind them.
men evil
Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.
silence
Thought will not work except in silence.
time forever roaring
O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!
time existence relative
Time has only a relative existence.
country men needs
What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
men squares wisest-man
To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.
ignorance perfect transition
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet; not so the transition from the former to the latter.
wise distance lying
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them; and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
life men errors
Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill.
running father men
I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshipers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.
hero men soul
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.