Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
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.
life people disputes
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
law human-nature habit
Habit is the deepest law of human nature
daughter pain creative
Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
honor atheism facts
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
atheism world way
If I had my way, the world would hear a pretty stern command - Exit Christ.
greed despair demand
Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
reading book biographies
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
faults conscious
The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.
kings men he-man
The king is the man who can.
time stars men
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
wise soul intellectual
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.