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.
sin committed ifs
Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.
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.
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.
peace men thinking
The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven. He kisseth the wheel that must kill him; and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom but so many degrees of his ascent to glory. The tormentors are weary of him. the beholders have pitty on him, all men wonder at him; and while he seems below all men, below himself, he is above nature. He hath so overcome hlmself that nothing can conquer him.
prayer blessed praying
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.
horse devil spurs
If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.
four five-senses senses
Will you trust your five senses above the four Gospels?
humble heart stubborn
Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.
proud gout ends
He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.
holy discord profane
Better a holy discord than a profane concord.