Socialized medicine, some still cry, but it's long been socialized, with those covered paying for those who are underinsured. Amer...ican medicine is simply socialized badly, penny wise and pound foolish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the yearly expenses of the existing religious system ... exceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty mill...ions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to conf...ound the things which are mighty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and not ...lead the character and progress of the citizen; the strongest usurper is quickly got rid of; and they only who build on Ideas, build for eternity; and that the form of government which prevails, is the expression of what cultivation exists in the population which permits it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Both Eliot and Pound condense; their best verse is weighted--Pound's, with sensual experience primarily, and Eliot's with beliefs.... Where the mind's life is concerned the senses produce images, and beliefs produce dramatic cries. The condensation is important.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We all desiren, if it mighte be, To han husbandes hardy, wise, and free,... And secret, and no niggard, ne no fool, Ne him that is aghast of every tool, Ne none avaunter, by that God above!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were young, we were merry, we were very very wise, And the door stood open at our feast,... When there passed us a woman with the West in her eyes, And a man with his back to the East.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have;... And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only beloved and loving me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »