Stung by straitness of our life, made strait
On purpose to make sweet the life at large. [ Browning ]

Better be stung by a nettle than pricked by a rose. [ Proverb ]

He that handles a nettle tenderly is soonest stung. [ Proverb ]

Those that are stung by the scorpion, are healed by the scorpion. [ Proverb ]

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. [ Pope ]

Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. [ H. W. Beecher ]

Give me the boy who rouses when he is praised, who profits when he is encouraged and who cries when he is defeated. Such a boy will be fired by ambition; he will be stung by reproach, and aminated by preference; never shall I apprehend any bad consequences from idleness in such a boy. [ Quintilian ]