Sting/people

Famous quotes containing the words sting and/or people:

    O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
    Dante Alighieri (1265–1321)

    Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)