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

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  Summer, Spring, Eye

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

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

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  Cities, Moonlight, Should

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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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• 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.

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  Country, Morning, Opera

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

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  Knowledge, Keys, Heaven

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

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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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• Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.

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  Beautiful, Youth, Harness

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.232

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• The soul of man createth its own destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Soul

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.197

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• Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

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  Vulgarity Is, Satin, Obvious

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• They are all up — the innumerable stars—
  And hold their place in heaven. ...
  There they stand,
  Shining in order, like a living hymn
  Written in light, awaking at the breath
  Of the celestial dawn, and praising
  Him Who made them, with the harmony of sphere.

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  Stars, Light, Order

  "The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous".

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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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• The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Risk, Guilt, Taught

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855). “The Rag-bag: A Collection of Ephemera”, p.263

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• Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

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  Soul, Ruins, Sitting

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.171

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• The position you hold and the work you are now doing.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Business, Position

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• Temptation hath a music for all ears.

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  Temptation, Ears

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.196

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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.

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  Mother, Stars, Flames

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

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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.

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  Love, Inspirational, Angel

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

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• The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

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  Destiny, Men, Heaven

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.197

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• Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,--a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after!

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  Challenges, Thrill, World

  Nathaniel Parker Willis, Alan Romanoff (1965). “Poets of the world: Nathaniel Willis”

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• How beautiful it is for a man to die
  Upon the walls of Zion! to be called
  Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel,
  To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!

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  Beautiful, Death, Wall

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1868). “The Poems: Sacred, Passionate, and Humorous”, p.110

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• I love to go and mingle with the young
  In the gay festal room--when every heart
  Is beating faster than the merry tune,
  And their blue eyes are restless, and their lips
  Parted with eager joy, and their round cheeks
  Flush'd with the beautiful motion of the dance.

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  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.238

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• The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Bows, Dresses, Quiet

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