Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
running spiritual age
The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
littles virtue abstract
He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
country comfort vote
No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.
depth covenant ark
The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.
breathing vulgarity-is comfort
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
wisdom men infinite
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
work men majesty
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
art doubt black
Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.
mind rise-above metaphysics
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
art book reading
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
lying
Lies exist only to be extinguished.
men monsters world
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
wall home house
My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.
attitude names mouths
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.