Quotes of Harm - somelinesforyou

“ How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. ”

- Seneca

“ The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales. ”

- Aesop

“ There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories. ”

- Washington Irving

“ There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. ”

- George Eliot

“ We take no note of time But from its loss. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance. ”

- Steve Perry

“ But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. ”

- Bible

“ The difference between coarse and refined abuse is the difference between being bruised by a club and wounded by a poisoned arrow. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ”

- Jessamyn West

“ To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians. ”

- Maxim Gorky

“ He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ A benefit cited by way of reproach is equivalent to an injury. ”

- Jean Racine

“ Truth alone wounds. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. ”

- Plutarch

“ Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both. ”

- Tryon Edwards

“ Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. ”

- Confucius

“ Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. ”

- Tai Shang Kan Ying Pien

“ Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime. ”

- Herbert Ward

“ An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ One ungrateful man does an injury to all who stand in need of aid. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss. ”

- Kirk Kirkpatrick

“ It is better to receive than to do injury. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ She felt the loss of Willoughby's character yet more heavily than she had felt the loss of his heart. ”

- Jane Austen

“ The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. ”

- Publilius Syrus
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