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The soul of man createth its own destiny.

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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Journalist
Literary Critic
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Portland
Maine
Nathanael Parker Willis
Men
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Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins
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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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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 knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.
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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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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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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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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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How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
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The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.
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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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Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
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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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One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.
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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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It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.
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Youth is beautiful its friendship is precious the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.
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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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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
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