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- Sting: English musician, singer, songwriter and actor (artist name of Gordon Sumner)
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
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I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
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Love is stronger than justice.
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
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Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
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The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
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Who dreads to the dust returning?
Who shrinks from the sable shore,
Where the high and haughty yearning
Of the soul can sting no more?Source: The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. -
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
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Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.
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