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Nathaniel Parker Willis

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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


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The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.


— Nathaniel Parker Willis


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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.


— Nathaniel Parker Willis


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


— Nathaniel Parker Willis


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


— Nathaniel Parker Willis


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Press on! for in the grave there is no work and no device. Press on! while yet you may.


— Nathaniel Parker Willis


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The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.


— Nathaniel Parker Willis


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The same year Willis publiNathaniel Parker Willisd a volume of poetical Sketches. During Willis's time at the journal he especially promoted the works of women poets including Frances Sargent Osgood Anne Lynch Botta Grace Greenwood and Julia Ward Howe. Willis had complained that his magazine writing prevented him from writing a longer work.

Willis developed an interest in literature while attending Yale College and began publishing poetry. His brother was the composer Richard Storrs Willis and his sister wrote under the name Fanny Fern. Critics including his sister in her novel Ruth Hall occasionally described him as being effeminate and Europeanized.

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