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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

— Abraham Lincoln

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he has any thought of binding them, nor is it to be inferred that he is so foolish as to imagine that he has any right or power to bind them, to live in it.

— Lysander Spooner

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

— Heber J. Grant

A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.

— Sai Baba

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

— William Wilberforce

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

— Christina Aguilera

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

— Charlotte Bronte

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

— Sydney Madwed

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke

✗Opposing Perspectives

Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

— Franz Grillparzer

Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.

— Mary Oliver