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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Nathaniel Parker Willis
Age: 61 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 20
Died: 1867
Died: January 20
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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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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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Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
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Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins
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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.
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Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.
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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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How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
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I'm weary of my lonely but And of its blasted tree, The very lake is like my lot, So silent constantly-- I've liv'd amid the forest gloom Until I almost fear-- When will the thrilling voices come My spirit thirsts to hear?
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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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Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
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One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.
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How beautiful it is for a man to die Upon the walls of Zion! to be called Like a watch-worn and weary sentinel, To put his armour off, and rest in heaven!
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Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
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Temptation hath a music for all ears.
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
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The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
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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 rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.
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