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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel
French biologist & surgeon (1873 - 1944)

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Eleanor Hamilton

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to bring the news to you.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

No president in history has been more vilified or was more vilivied during the time he was President than Lincoln. Those who knew him, his secretaries, have written that he was deeply hurt by what was said about him and drawn about him, but on the other hand, Lincoln had the great strength of character never to display it, always able to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might be. These elements of greatness, of course, inspire us all today.

Richard Nixon

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

David Frye impersonating Nixon

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Leonardo da Vinci
Italian engineer, painter, & sculptor (1452 - 1519)

Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

William Penn
English religious leader and colonist (1644 - 1718)

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the other to get the news to you.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

Whoever finds love
beneath hurt and grief
disappears into emptiness
with a thousand new disguises.

Jelaluddin Rumi

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine

There is only one way to hurt someone who has lost everything -- give him back something broken.

Stephen R. Donaldson, The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant

When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him.

Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

Winston Churchill

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

African proverb

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

Frank W. Woolworth

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster, as a small child
British novelist (1879 - 1970)

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Ovid
Roman poet (43 BC - 17 AD)

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