“The scar of fire, the dint of steel,
Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)
“The scar of fire, the dint of steel,
Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
24 March 1895, page 337
John of the Mountains, 1938
Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer
Source: The Book of Joe (2005), 2014-January-15 http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Book_of_Joe.html?id=_T5MCwAL4owC,
“In love, the first healed is the best healed.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
En amour, celui qui est guéri le premier est toujours le mieux guéri.
Maxim 417.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Les défauts de l'âme sont comme les blessures du corps: quelque soin qu'on prenne de les guérir, la cicatrice paraît toujours, et elles sont à tout moment en danger de se rouvrir.
Variant translation: The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.
Maxim 194.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) Poet
Variant: Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love