Thomas Adams
Thomas Adams
Architect and former President of Landscape Architects. He was known for urban planning projects like The Hydrostone and Corner Brook, Newfoundland.
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth10 September 1871
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He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it-a gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the brewer's agent, the tavern and alehouse benefactor, the beggar's companion, the constable's trouble, his wife's woe, his children's sorrow, his neighbours scoff, his own shame.
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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
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Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.
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Half our virtue arises from our being out of the way of temptation.
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Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.
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The devil makes his Christmas-pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers.
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He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.
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The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
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Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.
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He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.
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Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.
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Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.
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Better a holy discord than a profane concord.