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The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away.

— Edward Young

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The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

The man that makes a character makes foes.

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

Night-Thoughts (1742)

By night an atheist half believes in God.

Night Thoughts (1743)

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If strong trust is not knotted in the foundation of love, a home that could shield its inhabitants could not be built.

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

Robert Frost North of Boston (1914)

There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a Home.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin Humanity in the City (1854)

A man's house is his castle — et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.

Edward Coke Institutes of the Laws of England (1628)

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