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[[File:NPWillis-brady.jpg|thumb|He who binds<br>His [[soul]] to [[knowledge]], steals the [[key]] of [[heaven]].]]
'''[[w:Nathaniel Parker Willis|Nathaniel Parker Willis]]''' ([[20 January]] [[1806]] – [[20 January]] [[1867]]) was an [[w:United States|American]] author and editor who had worked with notable American writers including [[Harriet Jacobs]] and [[Edgar Allan Poe]].

==Quotes==
[[File:Bergonzoli's "The Love of Angels" in Luton Hoo (01).jpg |thumb|If there is any thing that keeps the [[mind]] open to [[angel]] visits, and repels the [[Evil|ministry of ill]], it is [[human]] [[love]].]] 

* If there is any thing that keeps the mind<br>Open to angel visits, and repels<br>The ministry of ill—'''tis human love''.
** ''Poem Delivered before the Society of United Brothers at Brown University on the Day Preceding Commencement, September 6, 1831'' (New York: J. & J. Harper, 1831), p. 19.

*Wisdom sits alone<br>Topmost in Heaven.
** "The Scholar of Thebet Ben Khorat", II, in ''Melanie and Other Poems'' (London: Saunders and Otley, 1835), p. 128.

* He who binds<br>His soul to [[knowledge]] steals the key of heaven.
** "The Scholar of Thebet Ben Khorat", II, in ''Melanie and Other Poems'' (London: Saunders and Otley, 1835), p. 129.

*  At present there is no distinction among the ''[[w:Upper ten thousand|upper ten thousand]]'' of the city.
** ''Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil, Part IV: Ephemera'' (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1845), p. 161.
** Note in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' (1919):— Compare: "I want you to see Peel, Stanley, Graham, Sheil, Russell, Macaulay, Old Joe, and soon. They are all upper-crust here." [[Thomas Chandler Haliburton]], ''Sam Slick in England'', 2 Chap., xxiv.; "Those families, you know, are our upper-crust,—not upper ten thousand", [[James Fenimore Cooper]], ''The Ways of the Hour'', chapter vi. (1850)

* One lamp—''thy mother's love''—amid the stars<br>Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and, before<br>The throne of God burn through eternity—<br>Holy—as it was lit and lent thee here.
** "[[w:Rizpah|Rizpah]] with Her Sons", in ''Sacred Poems'' (New York: Clark & Austin, 1847), p. 69.

* They are all up—the innumerable [[stars]]—<br>And hold their place in heaven. […]<br>There they stand,<br>Shining in order, like a living hymn<br>Written in light, awaking at the breath<br>Of the celestial dawn, and praising Him<br>Who made them, with the [[w:Musica universalis|harmony of spheres]].
** "Contemplation", in ''Sacred Poems'' (New York: Clark & Austin, 1847), p. 104.

* For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart,<br> And makes his pulses fly,<br>To catch the thrill of a happy voice,<br> And the light of a pleasant eye.
** "Saturday Afternoon", in ''Poems of Early and After Years'' (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848), p. 120.

* Let us weep in our darkness—but weep not for him!<br>Not for him—who, departing, leaves millions in tears!<br>Not for him—who has died full of honor and years!<br>Not for him—who ascended Fame’s ladder so high<br>From the round at the top he has stepp'd to the sky.
** "The Death of [[William Henry Harrison|Harrison]]", in ''Poems of Early and After Years'' (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848), p. 220.

* But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven<br> By man is cursed alway!
** "Unseen Spirits", in ''Poems of Early and After years'' (Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848), p. 234.

* The value of life deepens incalculably with the privileges of travel.
** ''Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American Frigate'' (Auburn: Alden, Beardsley & Co., 1853), Letter V, p. 58.

===''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'' (1919)===
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*It is the month of June,<br> The month of leaves and roses,<br>When pleasant sights salute the eyes,<br> And pleasant scents the noses.
**''The Month of June''

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* [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/6238 N P Willis at Project Gutenberg]
* [https://archive.org/details/compworknpwillis00willrich ''The Complete Works of N. P. Willis'' (1846)]
* [http://www-gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/cgi-bin/digbib.cgi?PPN253416752 ''Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American Frigate'' (1853)]

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