A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.
Interpretation
Building a home brings responsibility and lifelong commitment.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson suggests that the act of creating a home is not merely a physical endeavor, but also one that entails taking on responsibilities and obligations. Once a man has built a house, he becomes bound to it, and the act of home-making transcends into a deeper comprehension of lifeβs commitments and the burdens of ownership.
In practice
In a speech about homeownership, one could use this quote to emphasize the responsibilities that come with owning property.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.
I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.
We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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