Honore de Balzac Quotes
Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
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Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we should finally peel back the scabs and take a closer look at why all the wounds haven't healed.
B. R. Hayden
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
Alan Paton
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I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
Xenocrates
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Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue
Zeno of Citium
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You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.
Nalini Singh
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
Anne Carson
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
Oscar Wilde
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Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.
Marge Piercy
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.
Marianne Williamson
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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
Yasmin Mogahed
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Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.
Pete Wilson
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My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.
Gabourey Sidibe
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Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more consonant to Nature.
William Wordsworth
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Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing a mirror, which becomes bright when the dust is removed. Remove your passions, and have no hankering.
Gautama Buddha
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While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.
Honore de Balzac
