Truth alone wounds. [ Napoleon ]
A word sooner wounds than heals. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Wounds given to honor never heal. [ Corneille ]
The wounds of civil war are deepest. [ Lucan ]
Small wounds if many, may be mortal. [ Proverb ]
His breast with wounds unnumbered riven,
His back to earthy his face to heaven. [ Byron ]
Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves;
There is a nobleness of mind that heals
Wounds beyond salves. [ Cartwright ]
Envy shoots at others, and wounds herself. [ Proverb ]
Ill wounds may be cured, but not ill names. [ Proverb ]
Irony is the purulence of our moral wounds. [ De Finod ]
Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal. [ Thomas Paine ]
A wise physician, skilled our wounds to heal.
Is more than armies to the public weal. [ Pope ]
Never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. [ Milton ]
The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make. [ William Shakespeare ]
Praise undeservedly bestowed wounds an honest heart. [ Boileau ]
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green. [ Bacon ]
Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. [ Proverb ]
A solitary blessing few can find,
Our joys with those we love are intertwined,
And he whose wakeful tenderness removes
The obstructing thorn that wounds the breast he loves,
Smooths not another's rugged path alone,
But scatters roses to adorn his own.
Wounds may heal, but not those that are made by ill words. [ Proverb ]
Apt words have power to 'suage The tumors of a troubled mind;
And are as balm to festered wounds. [ Milton ]
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal uncured wounds. [ Horace ]
The pleasures of thought are remedies for the wounds of the heart. [ Mme. de Stael ]
One blushes oftener from the wounds of self love than from modesty. [ Mme. Guibert ]
In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed. [ Massey ]
He does me double wrong, that wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue. [ William Shakespeare ]
The long sleep of death closes our scars, and the short sleep of life our wounds. [ Jean Paul Richter ]
The matrimonial knot is sometimes tied so tightly that it wounds those whom it unites. [ De Varennes ]
Wounds of the heart! your traces are bitter, slow to heal, and always ready to reopen. [ A. de Musset ]
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God! My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. [ William Shakespeare ]
The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart. [ Hannah More ]
The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. [ Bible ]
Great is the power of habit: teaching us as it does to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. [ Cicero ]
The heart is like the tree that gives balm for the wounds of man, only when the iron has wounded it. [ Chateaubriand ]
Whenever the good done to us does not touch and penetrate the heart, it wounds and irritates our vanity. [ E. de Girardin ]
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 ]
Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best. [ Charron ]
But the grave is not deep; it is the shining tread of an angel that seeks us. When the unknown hand throws the fatal dart at the end of man, then boweth he his head and the dart only lifts the crown of thorns from his wounds. [ Richter ]
The widow who has been bereft of her children may seem in after years no whit less placid, no whit less serenely gladsome; nay, more gladsome than the woman whose blessings are still round her. I am amazed to see how wounds heal. [ Charles Buxton ]
Never to speak by superlatives is a sign of a wise man; for that way of speaking wounds either truth or prudence. Exaggerations are so many prostitutions of reputation; because they discover the weakness of understanding, and the bad discerning of him that speaks. [ J. Earle ]