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
citizens forward further improvement life rewarded shall step
If you do this, we all of us shall be rewarded by the betterment of our towns, the beautification of our streets, the improvement of our suburbs; we shall have made one step forward to still further elevating, improving, and dignifying the life of our citizens.
casual continue enduring instead labor nervous shall turn ugly
So long as casual labor broods in squalid lairs, in sunless streets, and ugly dwellings are its only habitation, we shall continue to turn out nervous manikins instead of enduring men.
two christian-marriage creation
As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two.
christian fall men
That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
hook bait satan
Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
jesus heart love-is
Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but all these, our pleasure, treasure, and life, are reposed in Jesus Christ.
sin committed ifs
Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.
healing sick prevention
Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.
storm steers vessel
He who sends the storm steers the vessel.
beauty years lasts
Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.
father men enemy
His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.
prayer enemy ears
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.
atheist believe hypocrite
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.
christian pain blessing
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.