Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
woe obedience claims
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
god stars eye
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
writing men discovery
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
heart cutting color
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
sadness men misery
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
pistols strange influence
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
philosophy eye looks
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself.
advice slave
Be not a slave of words.
real men use
The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
idealism wells ideals
The actual well seen is ideal.
evil battle misery
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
art father sleep
Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.
eye littles before-and-after
Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
men poetry world
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.