Wounds

What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

Wounds, in medicine, are a type of physical injury in which skin is torn, cut or punctured (an open wound), or where blunt force trauma causes a contusion (a closed wound). In pathology, thry specifically refers to sharp injuries which damage the dermis of the skin.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 920-21.

• H' had got a hurt
  O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
  • Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto III, line 309.

• What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
  The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear
  That which disfigures it.
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 84.

• La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour moi.
  • The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
  • Charles IX, to Coligny, who was fatally wounded in the massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day.

• Tempore ducetur longo fortasse cicatrix;
  Horrent admotas vulnera cruda manus.
  • A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time;
    but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.
  • Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, I. 3. 15.

• Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem
  Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.
  • The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting,
    but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.
  • Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, I. 5. 37.

• Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
  And cherish'd thine image for years;
  Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
  In secret, in silence, and tears.
  • Mrs. David Porter, Thou Hast Wounded the Spirit.

• Show you sweet Cæsar's wounds, poor, poor dumb mouths,
  And bid them speak for me.
  • William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 2, line 229.

• Safe in a ditch he bides,
  With twenty trenched gashes on his head;
  The least a death to nature.
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 4, line 26.

• What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
  • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 3, line 377.

• He in peace is wounded, not in war.
  • William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, line 831.

• He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
  • William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act II, scene 2, line 1.

• The wound of peace is surety,
  Surety secure.
  • William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act II, scene 2, line 14.

• The private wound is deepest: O time most accurs'd
  'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst.
  • William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act V, scene 4, line 71.

• Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our Cushion.
  • William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, The Thorn in the Cushion.

• I was wounded in the house of my friends.
  • Zechariah, XIII. 6.