“Ever let the Fancy roam,
Pleasure never is at home.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Actually the opening lines of Keats's "Fancy" (1820).
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“Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is, at home.”
Source: The Traveller (1764), Line 73.
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His first, best country ever is, at home." by Oliver Goldsmith?
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Context: New voices come to me where'er I roam,
My heart too widens with its widening home:
But song grows weaker, and the heart must break
For lack of voice, or fingers that can wake
The lyre's full answer; nay, its chords were all
Too few to meet the growing spirit's call.
The former songs seem little, yet no more
Can soul, hand, voice, with interchanging lore
Tell what the earth is saying unto me:
The secret is too great, I hear confusedly.
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Home, Sweet Home (1822), from the opera of "Clari, the Maid of Milan", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Home is home, though it be never so homely", John Clarke, Paræmiologia, p. 101. (1639).
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“Room to roam, but only one home
For all the world to win.”
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Context: Thou goest thine, and I go mine —
Many ways we wend;
Many days, and many ways,
Ending in one end.
Many a wrong, and its curing song;
Many a road, and many an inn;
Room to roam, but only one home
For all the world to win.
Wojciech Polak (1964) Polish priest
Source: Polish independence centenary commemorated worldwide https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/polish-independence-centenary-commemorated-worldwide-3228 (11 November 2018)