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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Wall, Home

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, People, Mind
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.82

Some people are born very far from home.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, People, Born

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream, Sadness, Home
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

A man complained that on his way home to dinner he had every day to pass through that long field of his neighbor's. I advised him to buy it, and it would never seem long again.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Men, Long
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.36, Harvard University Press

We come to our own and would make friends with matter, which the ambitious chatter of the schools would persuade us to despise. We can never part with it; the mind loves its old home: as water to our thirst, so is rock, the ground, to our eyes, and hands, and feet. It is firm water: it is cold flame: what health, what affinity!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, School, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.451, Modern Library

Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Ideas, Shapes
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2431, Delphi Classics

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kings, Home, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits”, p.93, Harvard University Press

Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brother, Home, Fault Finding
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1914). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education, Travel, Home
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.278, Library of America

If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer's home. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Home, Writing
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.666, Modern Library

The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Home, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.131, Penguin

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Men, Looks
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book, Home, Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.332, Harvard University Press

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Ornaments

For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel, Home, Character
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.392

If a man owns land, the land owns him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Men, Land
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.376

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Husband, Home, Eye
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.271, Penguin

Let a man behave in his own house as a guest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Men, House
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.336, Harvard University Press

O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I mock at the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretch'd beneath the pines When the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and pride of man, At the Sophist's schools, and the learned clan; For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Stars, Home

The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse or fine; property and its cares, friends and a social habit, or politics, or music, or feasting. Everything is good which takes away one plaything and delusion more, and drives us home to add one stroke of faithful work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Work, Home, Differences
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.353

Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the conquering of the soil, plenty, and beyond this, the adorning of the country with every advantage and ornament which labor, ingenuity, and affection for a man's home, could suggest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Country, Home, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.215, Library of America

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art, Home, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.241, University of Georgia Press

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Home, Tea, Impossible
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2440, Delphi Classics

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise, Home, Men
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.86, Delphi Classics

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