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• How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

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  Heart, Ambition, Devil

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1840). “Letters from under a bridge: And poems”, p.225

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• Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

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  Appreciation, Art, Genius

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• Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.

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  Mistake, Despair, Noble

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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 rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.

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  Book, Rain, Clouds

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.21

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• Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

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  Maturity, Pineapples, Lows

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• The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.

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  Children, Angel, Care

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1855). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.438

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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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• 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 perfect world, by Adam trod,
  Was the first temple--built by God--
  His fiat laid the corner stone,
  And heaved its pillars, one by one.

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  Perfect, World, Stones

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.72

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• There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Happiness, Heart, Men

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