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• Even in the stifling bosom of the town,
  A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms
  That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd,
  That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint,
  Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well
  He cultivates.

  William Cowper

  Garden, Grace, Here And There

  William Cowper (1810). “The Task: A Poem. In Six Books”, p.125

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• Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.

  Gary Snyder

  World, Natural, Relation

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.42, Counterpoint Press

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• The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

  Washington Irving

  Affection, Rallying

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

  Miguel de Cervantes

  House

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• Communion is the law of growth, and homes only thrive when they sustain relations with each other.

  J. G. Holland

  Law, Growth, Relation

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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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• 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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• There is no happiness in life, there is no misery like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a home.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Life, Happiness, House

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

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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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• Our country is where ever we are well off.

  John Milton

  Country, Philosophy, Wells

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• To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home.

  Janet Morris

  Responsibility, Greatest Victory, World

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (1990). “Storm Seed”, Baen Books

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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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• Woman, the more careful she is about her face, the more careless about her house.

  Ben Jonson

  House, Faces, Careful

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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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• Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is our home; and, most of all, what becomes of men-all men, of all nations, colors, and creeds. This has become one world, a world for all men. It is only such a world that can now offer us life, and the chance to go on.

  George Wald

  Science, Men, Color

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• The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home.

  George Washington

  Encouragement, Mean, Skills

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.9

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• The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

  George W. Bush

  Science, Safety, Earth

  The Space Shuttle "Columbia" Tragedy Speech to the Nation, delivered 1 February 2003, White House Cabinet Room

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• [In my home workshop,] generally I'm mending things, which is interesting because you learn a lot about why they broke.

  James Dyson

  Learning, Science, Broken

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• It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives

  Harold S. Kushner

  School, Voice, People

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• My yearn for home is broadened
  Patriotism expanded
  By callings from beyond
  
  So I pack my things
  Nothing precious
  All things sacred

  Alanis Morissette

  Travel, Calling, Sacred

  Song: Citizen Of The Planet, Album: Flavors of Entanglement, 2008

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