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The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is afraid of every nettle should not piss in the grass.
Thomas Fuller
High poet, pride of the English squires, I would be just a nettle in your garden.
Eustache Deschamps
'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
William Shakespeare
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well.
Aaron Hill (writer)
Confidence is rewarded, apparently. There was a homewhen proverb that went, "Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy."
Isaac Asimov