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?
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it meant to live.We don't know how to live,therefore we don't know how to die
We have to live with ambiguity. We have to give ourselves over to it. The question is: How? How are we going to live in a universe where important questions will always go unanswered?
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.
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