Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
glowing language metaphor
The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
music song speech
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
eye enthusiasm pairs
The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.
heart men veins
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
life writing heroic
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
running men thinking
A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.
home science heaven
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
fire masters servant
Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!
effort knows
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
men fire secret
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
men cash sole
Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
sentimental sentiments mortals
The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
believe kissing atheism
One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?
philosophy men long
Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.