Friday, August 25, 2017
This Is My Home
George Gissing (1857-1903), The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft ("Spring," II):
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In vain I have pondered the Stoic virtues. I know that it is folly to fret about the spot of one's abode on this little earth.Related posts:
All places that the eye of heaven visitsBut I have always worshipped wisdom afar off. In the sonorous period of the philosopher, in the golden measure of the poet, I find it of all things lovely. To its possession I shall never attain. What will it serve me to pretend a virtue of which I am incapable? To me the place and manner of my abode is of supreme import; let it be confessed, and there an end of it. I am no cosmopolite. Were I to think that I should die away from England, the thought would be dreadful to me. And in England, this is the dwelling of my choice; this is my home.
Are to the wise man ports and happy havens.
- Near and Dear
- Parochialism
- One World
- Local Attachment
- Patriotism
- Insularity
- Le Patriotisme de Clocher
- Home Sweet Home
