Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
death remedy all-things
There are remedies for all things but death.
death want awake
I want to meet my God awake.
book men doctors
A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for; what suits his constitution; and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
heart python america
Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods.
ambition men desire
No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
rogues cunning devilish
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
waiting revolution governors
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.
spring past remembrance
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
religious men religion
If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.
night heaven religion
An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
laughter mean
Laughter means sympathy.
world woe judgment
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
mean reality men
Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality; and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
lying devil body
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.