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And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands?
Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house
of my friends.
Author: Bible
Source: Zechariah (ch. XIII, v. 6)
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H' had got a hurt
O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 309)
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What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear
That which disfigures it.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto III, st. 84)
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The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
[Fr., La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour moi.]
Author: Charles IX
Source: to Coligny, who was fatally wounded in the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day
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A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but
wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
[Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix;
Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 3, 15)
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The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting
his former wound resumes his arms.
[Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem
Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]
Author: Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Source: Epistoloe Ex Ponto (I, 5, 37)
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Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherish'd thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears.
Author: Mrs. David Porter
Source: Thou Hast Wounded the Spirit
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The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is called
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To th' bottom of the worst.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The History of Troilus and Cressida (Hector at II, ii)
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I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
And bid them speak for me.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Antony at III, ii)
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Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
The least a death to nature.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (First Murderer at III, iv)
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What wound did ever heal but my degrees?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at II, iii)
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How he in peace is wounded, not in war.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Rape of Lucrece (l. 831)
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, ii)
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The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst,
'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine at V, iv)
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Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create
anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the
thorns in our cushion.
- William Makepeace Thackeray,
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
Source: Roundabout Papers--The Thorn in the Cushion
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