Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
wise teaching virtuous
He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
history rumor distillation
History: A distillation of rumor.
wise lying science
The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.
wise environmental foolish
Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
believe thinking may
We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.
sea debt borrowing
Debt is a bottomless sea.
self disease contemplation
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.
two eternity confluence
Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?
zero destiny world
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
men bells muffins
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
land air sea
Providence has given to the French the empire of the land, to the English that of the sea, to the Germans that of--the air!
evil may fallacy
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.
two years fame
Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
greatness
We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.