God bless the physician who warms the speculum or holds your hand and looks into your eyes. Perhaps one subtext of the health care... debate is a yen to be treated like a whole person, not just an eye, an ear, a nose or a throat. A yen to be human again, on the part of patient and doctor alike.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
See what a grace was seated on this brow: Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself,... An eye like Mars, to threaten and command.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dry eucalyptus seeks god in the rainy cloud. Professor Eucalyptus of New Haven seeks him... In New Haven with an eye that does not look Beyond the object.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at th...e last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if ...anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to... possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but wh...o throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But a man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him. Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the h...int of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. But it is found that the machine unmans the user. What he gains in making cloth, he loses in general power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »