My native land, good-night! [ Byron ]
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground. [ Pope ]
Vice in its own pure native ugliness. [ Crabbe ]
See how the orient dew
Shed from the bosom of the morn
Into the blowing roses
(Yet careless of its mansion new
For the clear region where it was born)
Round in itself incloses,
And in its little globe's extent
Frames, as it can, its native element. [ Andrew Marvell ]
I am native here and to the manner born. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Sc. 4 ]
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land?" [ Scott ]
To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art. [ Goldsmith ]
High minds, of native pride and force.
Most deeply feel thy pangs. Remorse!
Fear, for their scourge, mean villains have,
Thou art the torturer of the brave! [ Scott ]
Good manners give integrity a bleeze,
When native virtues join the arts to please. [ Allan Ramsay ]
Of bard and chief. Old Erin's native Shamrock. [ Moore ]
How dear is our native land to all noble hearts ! [ Voltaire ]
O, reputation! dearer far than life.
Thou precious balsam, lovely, sweet of smell.
Whose cordial drops once spilt by some rash hand,
Not all the owner's care, nor the repenting toil
Of the rude spiller, ever can collect
To its first purity and native sweetness. [ Sewell ]
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. [ Pascal ]
Let our last sleep be in the graves of our native land! [ Osceola ]
Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers! [ Schiller ]
Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face. [ Dr. Watts ]
The native hue of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought. [ William Shakespeare ]
The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. [ Alexander Hamilton ]
The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory. [ Blake ]
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. [ Lowell ]
The native soil of our thoughts is the heart; whoso will have his fresh must draw from this spring. [ Börne ]
Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, who never to himself hath saith, This is my own, my native land!
[ Sir Walter Scott ]
Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so. [ Carlyle ]
To be strong by nature, to be urged on by the native powers of the mind, and to be inspired by a divine spirit, as it were. [ Cicero ]
Her head was bare, but for her native ornament of hair, which in a simple knot was tied above - sweet negligence, unheeded bait of love! [ Dryden ]
Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Teeth, hair, nails, and the human species, prosper not when separated from their place. A wise man, being informed of this, should not totally forsake his native home. [ Hitopadesa ]
When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge, love simple ones as you would native roses on your cheek. [ J. C. Hare ]
In oratory, affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn. [ Lord Herbert ]
A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities of home, and to the thoughts which leap up from his father's graves. [ Chapin ]
There are evil spirits who suddenly fix their abode in man's unguarded breast, causing us to commit devilish deeds, and then, hurrying back to their native hell, leave behind the stings of remorse in the poisoned bosom. [ Schiller ]
Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise - severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming - beautiful, but dead. [ C. Stanford ]
Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism. [ Southey ]
We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]