Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

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• Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Motivational, Gratitude, Memories

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• It is the month of June,
  The month of leaves and roses,
  When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
  And pleasant scents the noses.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Summer, Spring, Eye

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotation" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• He who binds
  His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Knowledge, Keys, Heaven

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.91

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• A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

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  Eye, Angel, Soul

  Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1837). “Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter”, p.154

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• Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Study, Manners, Politeness

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• O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!

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  Prayer, Heart, Utterance

  Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Llewellyn Williams (1832). “Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...”, p.36

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• I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Lips, Reason, Courtship

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.48

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• The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Rose, Lilies, Faces

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• One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Mother, Stars, Flames

  Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1848). “Poems of early and after years ... Illustrated by E. Leutze”, p.73

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• Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Wisdom, Heart, Men

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.118

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• The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

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  Truth, Men, Peculiar

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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• The taste forever refines in the study of women.

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  Women, Forever, Taste

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1849). “Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor”, p.363

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• Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Cities, Moonlight, Should

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• One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Country, Morning, Opera

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• T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Prayer, Heart, Dark

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• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Love, Inspirational, Angel

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.161

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• Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

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  Mistake, Despair, Noble

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• Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

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  Prejudice, Noblemen, Towns

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.198

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• It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

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  Spirit, Forget You, Forget

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1848). “Poems of Early and After Years”, p.246

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• We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

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  Future, Believe, Land

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1848). “Poems of Early and After Years”, p.73

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• There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

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  Future, Dip, Twenties

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1849). “Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor”, p.90

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• If e'er I win a parting token,
  'Tis something that has lost its power--
  A chain that has been used and broken,
  A ruin'd glove, a faded flower;
  Something that makes my pleasure less,
  Something that means--forgetfulness.

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  Flower, Mean, Winning

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• The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.

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  Travel, Privilege, Value Of Life

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “Summer cruise in the Mediterranean: on board an American frigate”, p.58

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• There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

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  Flower, Heart, Simple

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.62

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• Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Luck, Mouths

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