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A sylvan home under the evening star feels safe, and Emerson says such a place is built on character, not rank. He compares a wise man's hearth to the earth and the sky, and he jokes that a scholar must go home to check his manuscripts before giving an opinion.

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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

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Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

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The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

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Some people are born very far from home.

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If a man owns land, the land owns him.

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The house praises the carpenter.

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What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

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Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

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To the birds and trees he talks: Caesar of his leafy Rome, There the poet is at home.

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We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning…

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For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

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Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

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Happy will the house be in which the relationships are formed from character.

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their…

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There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will…

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The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at…

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A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch,…

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Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order;…

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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can…

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A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home…

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house, a world; and beyond its world a heaven. Know then, that the…

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“The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him…

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I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not…

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O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am…

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The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse…

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If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the…

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Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the…

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We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to…

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Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples,…

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Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven. Know then, that the…

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Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant…

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A house is made with walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

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Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

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Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

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A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

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When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken; but when he is abroad, it…

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Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him,…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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