Abode Quotes

• A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

  Chanakya

  Life, Karma, Being Alone

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (p. 13), 2002.

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• Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

  Abu Bakr

  World, Loan, Indolence

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• Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Thank You, Pain, Want

  Oliver Goldsmith (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.14

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• Eternity' is there, We say, as of a station. Meanwhile, he is so near, He joins me in my Ramble? Divides abode with me? No Friend have I that so persists As this Eternity.

  Emily Dickinson

  No Friends, Eternity, Persist

  Complete Poems, no.1684 (first published 1914).

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• Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

  Ovid

  Love, Friendship, Dignity

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• Blest be that spot, where cheerful guests retire
  To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire;
  Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,
  And every stranger finds a ready chair
  Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crown'd,
  Where all the ruddy family around
  Laugh at the jest or pranks, that never fail,
  Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale,
  Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
  And learn the luxury of doing good.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Pain, Simple, Fire

  Oliver Goldsmith (1833). “Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith: With a New Life of the Author”, p.81

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• Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Eden, House

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1131, Harvard University Press

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• Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end. Tho'the way be long let your heart be strong, Keep right on round the bend. Tho' you're tired and weary Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode, Where all you love you've been dreaming of Will be there, at the end of the road.

  Bill Vaughan

  Dream, Strong, Love You

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• Tho' you're tired and weary
  Still journey on, till you come to your happy abode,
  Where all you love you've been dreaming of
  Will be there, at the end of the road.

  Sir Harry Lauder

  Dream, Love You, Tired

  'The End of the Road' (1924 song)

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• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

  Edmund Waller

  Ocean, Use, May

  'Of a War with Spain' l. 25

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• The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied, and impatient temper which sees no fit abode here for its ideals and chooses therefore to behold them under insensible figures. As a result of this choice it comes to disregard certain limitations. Its figures are blown to wild adventures, lacking the gravity of solid bodies, and the mind that has conceived them ends by disowning them.

  James Joyce

  Adventure, Insecure, Choices

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• No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.

  William Cowper

  Acceptance, Thorns, Found

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• It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

  Voltaire

  Angel, Air, Void

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.2868, Delphi Classics

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• The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Tongue, Prison, Fame

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

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• And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

  Donald Cargill

  Thinking, Land, Long

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• Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.

  Nelson A. Miles

  Powerful, Race, Lasts

  Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.340, U of Nebraska Press

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• Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast.

  Emile Souvestre

  Wisdom, And Love, Breasts

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 549), 1886.

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• Though, I am here bodily, still I know what you do; beyond the seven seas. Go wherever you will, over the wide world, I am with you. My abode is in your heart and I am within you. Always worship Me, Who is seated in your heart, as well as in the hearts of all beings.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Heart, Sea, World

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• The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reflection, Men, House

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• May the Heart of Jesus Christ be our school! Let us make our abode there. Let us study its movements and attempt to conform ours to them. Yes, O Divine Jesus, I want to live there.

  Claude de la Colombiere

  Jesus, Heart, School

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• Order is a lovely nymph, the child of Beauty and Wisdom; her attendants are Comfort, Neatness, and Activity; her abode is the valley of happiness: she is always to be found when sought for, and never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, Disorder.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Order, Nymphs

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• Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

  George Washington

  Ocean, Peaceful, Care

  George Washington (1835). “The writings of George Washington: being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private, selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes, and illustrations”, p.488

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• Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

  Samuel Griswold Goodrich

  Perseverance, Spring, Flower

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• I dwell with a strangely aching heart In that vanished abode there far apart

  Robert Frost

  Heart, Heart Ache

  Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.14, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heaven, Tire, Restless

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