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  • Sting: English musician, singer, songwriter and actor (artist name of Gordon Sumner)
  • Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
  • 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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  • André Gide 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.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Samuel Johnson A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson 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.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Muhammad Ali Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Sting I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil.
    Sting
    English musician, singer, songwriter and actor (artist name of Gordon Sumner) (1951 - )
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  • Sting I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.
    Sting
    English musician, singer, songwriter and actor (artist name of Gordon Sumner) (1951 - )
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  • Sting Love is stronger than justice.
    Sting
    English musician, singer, songwriter and actor (artist name of Gordon Sumner) (1951 - )
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  • Sting Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
    Sting
    English musician, singer, songwriter and actor (artist name of Gordon Sumner) (1951 - )
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  • Alighieri Dante O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Lord George Byron Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Sticks and stones are hard on bones aimed with angry art. Words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Edward Young To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
    Edward Young
    British poet (1683 - 1765)
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  • Bartholomew Dowling 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?
    The Revel: Time of the Famine and Plague in India, reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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