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?
To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.
It is clear that there is some difference between ends: some ends are energeia [energy], while others are products which are additional to the energeia.
Just as it is important in Latin America to discuss ideas that come from North America, I think it is interesting for North Americans to discuss ideas that come from Latin America or Africa and do not insert themselves into capitalist interests.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.
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