“How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.”
Source: Letters from under a bridge: And poems
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Famous Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
“Gratitude is not only the memory but the homage of the heart- rendered to God for his goodness.”
“Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.”
Source: Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil
“Temptation hath a music for all ears.”
Source: The poems, sacred, passionate, and humorous, of Nathaniel Parker Willis
“Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins”
Source: Sacred Poems
Source: The Rag-bag: A Collection of Ephemera
“The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.”
Source: Poems of early and after years ... Illustrated by E. Leutze