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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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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.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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The Spring is here--the delicate footed May, With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers, And with it comes a thirst to be away. In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.
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Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
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The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
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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 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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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
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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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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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The position you hold and the work you are now doing.
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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
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The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.
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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!
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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The taste forever refines in the study of women.
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But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!
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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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It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.
Nathaniel Parker Willis