Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
Interpretation
A wise person can find peace and belonging anywhere in the world.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that true wisdom allows a person to feel at home in any environment. The wise man finds comfort in nature and the world around him, rather than being confined to a physical space, embracing the broader universe as his dwelling place.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about finding inner peace.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.
Don't become a victim of yourself. Forget about the thief waiting in the alley; what about the thief in your mind?
I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.
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