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• Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Love, Marriage, Missing You

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “The Poet at the Breakfast Table”, p.33, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

  Maya Angelou

  Life Changing, Home, Acceptance

  Twitter post from Mar 10, 2014

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• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Family, Home

  "The Death of the Hired Man" l. 121 (1914)

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• Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness.

  Vernon Baker

  Home, Heart, Laughing

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• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Home, Names

  Charles Dickens, John Forster (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens ...: Martin Chugglewit”, p.160

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• Where thou art, that is home.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Soulmate, Art

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.996, Delphi Classics

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• Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Wisdom, Travel, Home

  "No shame in living with parents" by Tim Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2009.

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• There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.

  Jane Austen

  Family, Happiness, Stay Strong

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.381, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Happiness, Being Happy, Peace

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• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Strong, Home

  "Martin Chuzzlewit". Book by Charles Dickens, Chapter 35, 1844.

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• Peace - that was the other name for home.

  Kathleen Norris

  Home, Names, Sweet Home

  KATHLEEN NORRIS (1931). “THE SACRIFICE YEARS”

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• Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

  James A. Baldwin

  Home, Irrevocable, Conditions

  "Giovanni's Room". Book by James A. Baldwin (Part 2), www.newyorker.com. 1956.

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• Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

  Gary Snyder

  Nature, Home, Earth

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.7, Counterpoint Press

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• We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Dwelling, Shapes

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• There is no place more delightful than home.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Home, Delightful

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• If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Peace, Home

  "The Poetics of Space". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1964.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dream, Wall, Home

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• A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.

  May Sarton

  Home, House, Doe

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• You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right.

  Maya Angelou

  Home, Truth Is, Cozy Home

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Owning A Home, House

  Gaston Bachelard (2014). “The Poetics of Space”, p.34, Penguin

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• Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
  A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.

  Robert Montgomery

  Home, Earth, Spots

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• Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

  Lydia M. Child

  Blessed, Home, Heart

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 34, 1843.

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• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gratitude, Home, Ambition

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “The works of Samuel Johnson”, p.431

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• Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Strong, Home, Rehearsal

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.2

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• Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?

  Emily Dickinson

  Home, Literature, Domes

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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