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Blessed are the joymakers.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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Nathaniel Parker Willis
Age: 61 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 20
Died: 1867
Died: January 20
Author
Journalist
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Portland
Maine
Nathanael Parker Willis
Blessed
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Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
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Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.
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The taste forever refines in the study of women.
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The dust is old upon my sandal-shoon, And still I am a pilgrim I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.
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It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.
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O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!
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Temptation hath a music for all ears.
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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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The soul of man createth its own destiny.
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The night is made for tenderness,--so still that the low whisper, scarcely audible, is heard like music,--and so deeply pure that the fond thought is chastened as it springs and on the lip made holy.
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Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
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The expressive word quiet defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.
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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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Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.
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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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