Will Thomas
Will Thomas
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
effort knows
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
men fire secret
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
men cash sole
Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
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.