Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• He who binds
  His soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Knowledge, Keys, Heaven

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.91

• Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Soul, Ruins, Sitting

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.171

• The soul of man createth its own destiny.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Destiny, Men, Soul

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.197

• I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Soul, Poison, Sin

• A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Eye, Angel, Soul

  Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1837). “Melanie and other poems. Edited by Barry Cornwall, i.e. B. W. Procter”, p.154

• 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

• The soul of man createth its own destiny of power; and as the trial is intenser here, his being hath a nobler strength in heaven.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Destiny, Men, Heaven

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.197

• 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.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Travel, Art, Dust

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.171

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