Writing a book I have found to be like building a house. A man forms a plan, and collects materials. He thinks he has enough to ra...ise a large and stately edifice; but after he has arranged, compacted and polished, his work turns out to be a very small performance. The authour however like the builder, knows how much labour his work has cost him; and therefore estimates it at a higher rate than other people think it deserves,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Little Bill Daggett: I don't deserve this. To die like this. I was building a house. Will Munny: Deserve's got nothing to do ...with it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The white man comes, pale as the dawn, with a load of thought, with a slumbering intelligence as a fire raked up, knowing well wha...t he knows, not guessing but calculating; strong in community, yielding obedience to authority; of experienced race; of wonderful, wonderful common sense; dull but capable, slow but persevering, severe but just, of little humor but genuine; a laboring man, despising game and sport; building a house that endures, a framed house. He buys the Indian's moccasins and baskets, then buys his hunting-grounds, and at length forgets where he is buried and plows up his bones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in... the heavens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a chea...p, dear house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Builder, in building the little house, In every way you may please yourself;... But please please me in the kitchen chimney: Don't build me a chimney upon a shelf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A perfect personality ... is only possible in a state of society where man is free to choose the mode of work, the conditions of w...ork, and the freedom to work. One to whom the making of a table, the building of a house, or the tilling of the soil, is what the painting is to the artist and the discovery to the scientist,--the result of inspiration, of intense longing, and deep interest in work as a creative force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of vi...ctory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One sorry fret, An anvill Sparke, rose higher,... And in thy Temple falling, almost set The house on fire. Such fireballs dropping in the Temple Flame Burns up the building: Lord, forbid the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was once reproved by a minister who was driving a poor beast to some meeting-house horse-sheds among the hills of New Hampshire,... because I was bending my steps to a mountain-top on the Sabbath, instead of a church, when I would have gone farther than he to hear a true word spoken on that or any day. He declared that I was "breaking the Lord's fourth commandment," and proceeded to enumerate, in a sepulchral tone, the disasters which had befallen him whenever he had done any ordinary work on the Sabbath. He really thought that a god was on the watch to trip up those men who followed any secular work on this day, and did not see that it was the evil conscience of the workers that did it. The country is full of this superstition, so that when one enters a village, the church, not only really but from association, is the ugliest looking building in it, because it is the one in which human nature stoops the lowest and is most disgraced. Certainly, such temples as these shall ere long cease to deform the landscape. There are few things more disheartening and disgusting than when you are walking the streets of a strange village on the Sabbath, to hear a preacher shouting like a boatswain in a gale of wind, and thus harshly profaning the quiet atmosphere of the day. You fancy him to have taken off his coat, as when men are about to do hot and dirty work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »