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?
I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, _x000D_ _x000D_ So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;_x000D_ _x000D_ He informed me that knowledge is a light,_x000D_ _x000D_ And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.
You will never get any more out of this life than you expect.
The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do.
The fact that knowledge endlessly recedes as the investigator is about to grasp it is what constitutes at the same time his torment and happiness.
To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
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