Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
change memories yesterday
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
spiritual country men
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.
believe men belief
A man lives by believing something.
science thinking magic-in-the-world
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
past whole
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
persons
Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
knowledge men ignorant
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
essence history biographies
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
hero men divine
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
men history world
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
vision looks moments
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
men doe accidents
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
forever earth thorns
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
book essence soul
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.