Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
memories character writing
Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
earth bitter poor
O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.
humility independence safe
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
book failing
My books are friends that never fail me.
fall inspiration people
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
oratory prove knows
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
inspiring music angel
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
editors able world
Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
lying world opinion
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
lying book past
In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
men harmony virtue
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
inspirational men ought
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
inspirational brave helping
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
work misery cures
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.