Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
parent mind misery
Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.
society firsts essentials
Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.
practice principles virtue
Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.
silent nations courses
Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.
faith-religion daylight witch
Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.
obeying-god tyranny resisting
Resisting tyranny is obeying God
encouragement order giving
The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the protection it affords against foreign power, the virtue it inculcates, the just emulation of the distinction it confers on nations foremost in it; in short, its identification with power, morals, order and happiness (which merits to it premiums of encouragement rather than repressive taxes), are considerations [that should] always [be] present and [bear] with their just weight.
hands benefits republic
Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.
country interesting citizens
It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life.
kings desire may
I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.
gratitude effort age
The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.
informed-citizens informed-citizenry citizenry
An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will.
cities government support
The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
berries juice
The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.