Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
men long honor
Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
mistake fall men
Neither let mistakes and wrong directions - of which every man, in his studies and elsewhere, falls into many - discourage you. There is precious instruction to be got by finding that we are wrong. Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right, he will grow daily more and more right. It is, at bottom, the condition which all men have to cultivate themselves. Our very walking is an incessant falling - a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement! - it is emblematic of all things a man does.
war light woven
And there are Ben [Jonson] and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!
lord planets lord-bacon
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
shirts sole rules-of-life
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
names doe poet
He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet.
mean eye intellect
The eye of the intellect "sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing."
design independence way
I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
men darkness he-man
Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
men house bricks
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
mean speak prophet
We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.
philosophy battle customs
What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
men poor creatures
Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.
men firsts duty
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.