Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
motivational wisdom crow
If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.
kindness exercise humanity
When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies,you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.
men years enough
While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.
long letters affection
If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.
writing letters please
Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
writing hands convenience
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.
morning cutting shoulders
The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.
country pain fall
In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow citizens. My great pain is, lest my poor endeavours should fall short of the kind expectations of my country.
war interesting long
Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.
littles use credit
Our business is to have great credit and to use it little.
dull complaining congress
Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.
country virginia giving
If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.
virginia parent climate
When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.
paris independence woods
I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].