Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
death dying
Rest is for the dead.
believe men soul
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.
war soldier crow
Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?
confused confusion battle
Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
perfection being-thankful police
For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
eye responsibility men
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
laughter laughing deception
The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
laughter men keys
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
important three journalism
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
father party eye
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.
mistake errors inquiry
It is not honest inquiry that makes anarchy; but it is error, insincerity, half belief and untruth that make it.
history rumours distillation
History is the distillation of rumour.
time looks eternity
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
dream time lying
In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.