“We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.”
John Heyl Vincent (1832–1920) American theologian
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 206.
“Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.”
English Traits (1856)
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