Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
history
History is the new poetry.
tradition form notion
Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.
spiritual believe numbers
A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?...
angel islam stories
When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!...
mean islam becoming
As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can...
despair height depth
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
money men years
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
silence speech silence-is
Speech is great, but silence is greater.
suffering-pain pain-and-suffering strive
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
tolerance feelings understanding
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
life-and-love men action
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
government liberty machines
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
home biblical men
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
humanity gorillas no-patience
I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.