Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Motivational, Gratitude, Memories

• How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Heart, Ambition, Devil

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1840). “Letters from under a bridge: And poems”, p.225

• Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Wisdom, Heart, Men

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.118

• 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.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flower, Heart, Simple

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.62

• 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.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Eye, Heart

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.238

• There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffled soul, and drink its living waters, till his heart is pure; and this is human happiness.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Happiness, Heart, Men

• 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!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Prayer, Heart, Utterance

  Nathaniel Parker Willis, Henry Llewellyn Williams (1832). “Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...”, p.36

• T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Prayer, Heart, Dark

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