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• I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Heart, Sleep

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.10, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS

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• In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always islands of self-sufficient order — on farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters — where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives: as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

  Erik Erikson

  Happiness, People, Inner Peace

  "Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History".

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• The sweetest type of heaven is home - nay, heaven is the home for whose acquisition we are to strive the most strongly. Home, in one form and another, is the great object of life. It stands at the end of every day's labor, and beckons us to its bosom; an life would be cheerless and meaningless, did we not discern across the river that divides us from the life beyond, glimpses of the pleasant mansions prepared for us.

  J. G. Holland

  Rivers, Heaven, Glimpse

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 325, 1895.

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• Home is the seminary of all other institutions.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Institutions, Seminary

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• It has passed over mountain ranges and
  The waters of the seven seas.
  It has shown upon laborers in the fields,
  Into the windows of homes,
  And shops, and factories.
  
  It has beheld cities with gleaming towers,
  And also the hovels of the poor.
  It has been witness to both good and evil,
  The works of honest men and women and
  The conspiracy of knaves.
  
  It has seen marching armies, bomb-blasted villages
  And "the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
  Now, unsullied from its tireless journey,
  It comes to us,
  Messenger of the morning.
  Harbinger of a new day.

  Clinton Lee Scott

  Morning, Army, Journey

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• Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.

  Gary Snyder

  Space, Body, Scales

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.105, Counterpoint Press

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• Peace and rest at length have come,
  All the day's long toil is past;
  And each heart is whispering, "Home,
  Home at last!"

  Thomas Hood

  Peace, Heart, Past

  Thomas Hood (1861). “The daughters of king Daher; and other poems”, p.62

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• Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, and dwell upon it.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Men, Giving, Mind

  N. Scott Momaday (1976). “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, p.83, UNM Press

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• I have been very happy with my homes, but homes really are no more than the people who live in them.

  Nancy Reagan

  People, Very Happy, Has Beens

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• If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Humble, Men

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.2, B Times

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• No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Doe, Matter, Circumstances

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• The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kings, Feelings, Privilege

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• This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears,
  Built as it has been in our waning years,
  A rest afforded to our weary feet,
  Preliminary to - the last retreat.

  William Cowper

  Sight, Years, Feet

  William Cowper, John William Cunningham, William Hayley (1835). “The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence”, p.172

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• If you want to feel at home, stay home.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Feels, Stay At Home

  "Enter, conversing".

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• Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  House

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• A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

  Margaret Fuller

  Fire, House, Mind

  Margaret Fuller (1860). “Woman in the nineteenth century: and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman”, p.36

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• At night returning, every labour sped,
  He sits him down, the monarch of a shed;
  Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys
  His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;
  While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,
  Displays her cleanly platter on the board.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Children, Night, Fire

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.139

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• For a man's house is his castle.

  Edward Coke

  Men, House, Castles

  The Third Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England ch. 73 (1644)

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• A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

  Marguerite Duras

  Time, Children, Adventure

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.42, Grove Press

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• Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

  Charles Lamb

  Moving, Beer, Firsts

  Charles Lamb (1866). “The works of Charles Lamb”, p.237

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• Home gives you something no other place can... your history. Home is where your history begins.

  Billie Letts

  Giving

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• When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

  Peter De Vries

  Broken Heart, Thinking, Broken Promises

  Peter De Vries (2014). “The Tunnel of Love: A Novel”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

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• It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Honor, Mind

  "The Rambler No. 68" by Samuel Johnson, November 10, 1750.

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• I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Lying, Science, Night

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• In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in diameter ... Think of the sun as something less than a speck of dust in a vast city, of the earth as less than a millionth part of such a speck of dust, and we have perhaps as vivid a picture as the mind can really grasp of the relation of our home in space to the rest of the universe.

  James Jeans

  Science, Thinking, Dust

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