Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
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Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
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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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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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And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.
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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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There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
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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.
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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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I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.
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Temptation hath a music for all ears.
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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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But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!
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It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.
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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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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
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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 value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.