Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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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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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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Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
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How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
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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.
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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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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
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Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.
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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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T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
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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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There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
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The soul of man createth its own destiny.
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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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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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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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Temptation hath a music for all ears.
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But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!