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A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but
wounds which are raw shudder at the touch read more
A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but
wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
[Lat., Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix;
Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.]
What wound did ever heal but my degrees?
What wound did ever heal but my degrees?
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting
his former wound resumes his arms.
[Lat., Saucius ejurat read more
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting
his former wound resumes his arms.
[Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem
Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]
How he in peace is wounded, not in war.
How he in peace is wounded, not in war.
Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
The least a death read more
Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
The least a death to nature.
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst,
'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst,
'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
[Fr., La blessure est pour vous, la douleur read more
The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
[Fr., La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour moi.]
The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is called
The beacon of the read more
The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is called
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To th' bottom of the worst.
