Wound Quotes
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way, blunts the edges ever so slightly.
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The love of my life came not As love unto others is cast; For mine was a secret wound-- But the wound grew a pearl, at last.
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Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal; Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.
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It harms a man more to wound his heart than to hurt his body.
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I think you learn to live with the pain of miscarrying. The open wound heals and becomes a scar. Not as raw, but always there. A part of you- your heart.
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Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.
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Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
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I thought of what my father had told me one summer day. I’d fallen down, and my knee was all scraped up and bleeding. We sat on the back porch, and he cleaned my wound and put a Band-Aid on it. The sky had cleared after a summer storm. I’d been crying, and he tried to get me to smile. “Your eyes are the color of sky. Did you know that?” I don’t know why I remembered this. Maybe it was because I knew he was telling me he loved me.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.
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How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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You can't just wound the bear and run. He'll come after you.
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For every wound, the ointment of time.
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What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
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Art is a wound turned into light.
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I haven't hurt you ... if I have, it's the faithful wound of a friend.
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
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Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime.
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
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I am going a long way With these thou seëst-if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)- To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
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Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.
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Reproach is infinite, and knows no end So voluble a weapon is the tongue; Wounded, we wound; and neither side can fail For every man has equal strength to rail.
