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 first favourite was never heard of, the second favourite was never seen after the distance post, all the ten-to-oners were in the rear, and a dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grand stand in sweeping triumph.
Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I have learned or read. Since then, I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. (...) I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight.
There cannot be a sense of abundance or the experience of prosperity without appreciation. You cannot find beauty unless you appreciate beauty. You cannot find friendship unless you appreciate others. You cannot find love unless you appreciate loving and being loved. If you wish abundance, appreciate life.
Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
Since death will take us anyway, why live our life in fear? Why not die in our old ways and be free to live?
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