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The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
It is the month of June,The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes
And pleasant scents the noses. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
The taste forever refines in the study of women.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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
Temptation hath a music for all ears.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Ah me! the world is full of meetings such as this,a thrill, a voiceless challenge and reply, and sudden partings after! — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nature has wrought with a bolder hand in America.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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. — Nathaniel Parker Willis
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
The position you hold and the work you are now doing.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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
The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
The expressive word "quiet" defines the dress, manners, bow, and even physiognomy of every true denizen of St. James and Bond street.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his goodness.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Youth is beautiful; its friendship is precious; the intercourse with it is a purifying release from the worn and stained harness of older life.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Like Melrose Abbey, large cities should especially be viewed by moonlight.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Blessed are the joymakers.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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
Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Some noble spirits mistake despair for content.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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
Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
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
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
The ear in man and beast is an evidence of blood and high breeding.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis
The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.
— Nathaniel Parker Willis