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A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
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He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
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In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
The hearts that dare are quick to feel; The hands that wound are soft to heal.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847) -
We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
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