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.

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  Knowledge, Keys, Heaven

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

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• The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Art, Triumph, Presentation

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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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• 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.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Stars, Light, Order

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

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

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

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

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

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

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Spirit, Forget You, Forget

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

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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.

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  Wisdom, Heart, Men

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

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• The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Spring, Night, Lips

  Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Llewellyn Williams (1832). “Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...”, p.339

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

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Study, Manners, Politeness

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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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• 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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• 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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• A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flirting, Liberty, Desire

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• The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Sin, Christ

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1850). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.32

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• Temptation hath a music for all ears.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Temptation, Ears

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

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

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  Men, Luck, Mouths

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

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Business, Position

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• The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Blood, Ears

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