Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
pleasure-love god-love pleasure
Love not Pleasure; love God.
men cities done
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done.
degrees all-things
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
prayer men soul
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
eye way world
Such is the world. Understand it, despise it, love it; cheerfully hold on thy way through it, with thy eye on highest loadstars!
verbs infinite
The All of Things is an infinite conjugation of the verb To do .
mind done speak
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
lying two dwelling
But deepest of all illusory Appearances, for hiding Wonder, as for many other ends, are your two grand fundamental world-enveloping Appearances, SPACE and TIME. These, as spun and woven for us from before Birth itself, to clothe our celestial ME for dwelling here, and yet to blind it, lie all-embracing, as the universal canvas, or warp and woof, whereby all minor Illusions, in this Phantasm Existence, weave and paint themselves. In vain, while here on Earth, shall you endeavor to strip them off; you can, at best, but rend them asunder for moments, and look through.
art book writing
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.
lying writing character
In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.
people dumb dumb-people
The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
long age misery
Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
hero worship hero-worship
Society is founded on hero-worship.
book men years
In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.