A word sooner wounds than heals. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A bad wound heals; a bad name kills. [ Proverb ]

Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves;
There is a nobleness of mind that heals
Wounds beyond salves. [ Cartwright ]

God heals, and the physician hath the thanks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffused;
As poison heals, in just proportion used;
In heaps, like ambergrise, a stink it lies,
But well dispersed, is incense to the skies. [ Pope ]

A wound never heals so well that the scar cannot be seen. [ Danish Proverb ]

The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. Sleep is the half of time which heals us. [ Richter ]