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 Our country is wherever we are well off.
 [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]  
 Our country is wherever we are well off.
 [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.] 
 To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own 
country.
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 To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own 
country.
   - Thomas W. Higginson, 
 Land of my sires! what mortal hand
 Can e'er untie the filial band
  That knits me to read more 
 Land of my sires! what mortal hand
 Can e'er untie the filial band
  That knits me to thy rugged strand! 
 I can't but say it is an awkward sight
 To see one's native land receding through
  The read more 
 I can't but say it is an awkward sight
 To see one's native land receding through
  The growing waters; it unmans one quite,
   Especially when life is rather new. 
 Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
 Who never to himself hath said,
  This is my read more 
 Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
 Who never to himself hath said,
  This is my own, my native land!
   Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
    As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
     From wandering on a foreign strand! 
 What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
 [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.]  
 What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
 [Lat., Patriae quis exul se quoque fugit.] 
 They love their land, because it is their own,
 And scorn to give aught other reason why;
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 They love their land, because it is their own,
 And scorn to give aught other reason why;
  Would shake hands with a king upon his throne,
   And think it kindness to his majesty. 
 Yon Sun that sets upon the sea
 We follow in his flight;
  Farewell awhile to him and read more 
 Yon Sun that sets upon the sea
 We follow in his flight;
  Farewell awhile to him and thee,
   My native land--Good Night! 
 The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to 
the hour of his death never read more 
 The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to 
the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
 [Fr., Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et 
jusqu'a la mort ne voir qu'elle.]