Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
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.
emptiness empty loud
The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.
men higher blessedness
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
men interesting smallest
A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.
men heaven aspiration
A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.
change reform moral
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
ocean men swimmer
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
rushing swim rolling
Time is the silent, never-resting thing ... rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim.
miracle mystery arcs
We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
men animal tools
Man is a tool-using animal.
wells niagara
Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
stories caution prudence
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
past endurance cheerfulness
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.