Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
dark men fire
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
hero fighting men
All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Divine Significance of Life, then there is given a man fit to speak of this, to sing of this, to fight and work for this, in a great, victorious, enduring manner; there is given a Hero, -- the outward shape of whom will depend on the time and the environment he finds himself in.
hero men roots
Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.
men purpose should
A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that purpose.
art speech stifling
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
instruction findings
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
education practice mind
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
heaven littles hell
This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.
simple knack illusion
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.
men clothes suits
Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
lying anger men
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
practice errors together
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
done action known
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
art life-and-love government
What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?