Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes (7 quotes)

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“For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart,
And makes his pulses fly,
To catch the thrill of a happy voice
And the light of a pleasant eye.”

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Saturday Afternoon.
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“He who binds
His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.”

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Willis, The Scholar of Thibét Ben Khorat, II. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.

“At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.”

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Necessity for a Promenade Drive. Compare: "I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here." Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Sam Slick in England, 2 Chap., xxiv.; "Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand", James Fenimore Cooper, The Ways of the Hour, chapter vi. (1850).
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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

The Month of June.
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“The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven
By man is cursed alway.”

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Unseen Spirits.
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“Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!
Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tears!
Not for him who has died full of honor and years!
Not for him who ascended Fame’s ladder so high:
From the round at the top he has stepped to the sky.”

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The Death of Harrison.
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“Wisdom sits alone
Topmost in Heaven.”

Nathaniel Parker Willis

The Scholar of Thibet.
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