What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and but heal to wear That which disfigures it. Byron.Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 84.
Ill not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as alabaster. Shakespeare.Othello, Act V. Scene 2. (Othello in the bed-chamber of his wife, and meditating her death.)