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• There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Future, Dip, Twenties

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1849). “Rural Letters and Other Records of Thought at Leisure: Written in the Intervals of More Hurried Literary Labor”, p.90

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• We may believe that we shall know each other's forms hereafter; and in the bright fields of the better land call the lost dead to us.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Future, Believe, Land

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1848). “Poems of Early and After Years”, p.73

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• Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Luck, Mouths

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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.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Travel, Art, Dust

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

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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.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Life, Morning, Lying

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.257

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• 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

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• Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Appreciation, Art, Genius

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• The Spring is here--the delicate footed May,
  With its slight fingers full of leaves and flowers,
  And with it comes a thirst to be away.
  In lovelier scenes to pass these sweeter hours.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Spring, Flower, May

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “The poetical works of N.P. Willis”, p.183

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• Spring is a beautiful piece of work; and not to be in the country to see it done is the not realizing what glorious masters we are, and how cheerfully, minutely, and unflaggingly the fair fingers of the season broider the world for us.

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  Beautiful, Country, Spring

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1860). “Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson”, p.62

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• The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Beautiful, Tears, Purses

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• Blessed are the joymakers.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Blessed, Joy

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• Temptation hath a music for all ears.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Temptation, Ears

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1856). “The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis”, p.196

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