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When friends are at your hearthside met,
Sweet courtesy has done its most
If you have made each guest forget
That he himself is not the host.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: Hospitality
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If my best wines mislike thy taste,
And my best service win thy frown,
Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;
There's many another Inn in town.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: Quits
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Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men;
that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all
adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Author: Bible
Source: Jeremiah (ch. IX, v. 2)
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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in
honour preferring one another;
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in
prayer;
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. XII, v. 10-13)
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Let me live in my house by the side of the road,
Where the race of men go by;
They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong,
Wise, foolish,--so am I;
Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat,
Or hurl the cynic's ban?
Let me live in my house by the side of the road,
And be a friend to man.
Author: Sam Walter Foss
Source: House by the Side of the Road
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There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;
There are souls like stars that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament;
There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways never ran,--
But let me live by the side of the road,
And be a friend to man.
Author: Sam Walter Foss
Source: House by the Side of the Road
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He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere,
Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;
He fed a rout of yeoman with his cheer,
Nor was his bread and beefe kept in with care;
His wine and beere to strangers were not spare,
And yet beside to all that hunger greved,
His gates were open, and they were there relived.
Author: Robert Greene
Source: A Maiden's Dream (l. 232)
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Axylos, Teuthranos's son that dwelt in stablished Arisbe; a man
of substance dear to his fellows; for his dwelling was by the
road-side and he entertained all men.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Iliad (bk. VI, l. 12), (Lang's translation)
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True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Source: The Odyssey (bk. XV, l. 83), (Pope's translation)
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For 't is always fair weather
When good fellows get together
With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
Author: Richard Hovey
Source: Spring
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Hospitality sitting with gladness.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Translation from Frithiof's Saga
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So saying, with despatchful looks in haste
She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent.
Author: John Milton
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 331)
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No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an
annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's
house.
[Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest,
Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Miles Gloriosus (III, 3, 12)
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For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Satire II (bk. II, l. 159)
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My master is of churlish disposition
And little recks to find the way to heaven
By doing deeds of hospitality.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Corin at II, iv)
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I am your host.
With robber's hands in my hospitable favors
You should not ruffle thus.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Lear (Gloucester at III, vii)
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Be it not in thy care. Go,
I charge thee, invite them all; let in the tide
Of knaves once more; my cook and I'll provide.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Life of Timon of Athens (Timon at III, iv)
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market
town?
Author: Sir Rabindranath Tagore
Source: Gardener (4)
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The lintel low enough to keep out pomp and pride;
The threshold high enough to turn deceit aside;
The doorband strong enough from robbers to defend;
This door will open at a touch to welcome every friend.
Author: Henry Jackson van Dyke
Source: Inscription for a Friend's House
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A host in himself.
Author: Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington
Source: said of Lord John Russell
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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?
Author: Aeschylus
Source: None
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The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.
Author: Indian Proverb
Source: None
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Hospitality should have no other nature than love.
Author: Henrietta Mears
Source: None
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When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.
Author: Max Beerbohm
Source: None
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Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: None
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HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
Source: None
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