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We all boil at different degrees. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. - Epictetus Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. - Euripides As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection. - Henry Fielding Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Those passionate persons who carry their heart in their mouth are rather to be pitied than feared; their threatenings serving no other purpose than to forearm him that is threatened. - Thomas Fuller (1) Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. - Thomas Fuller (1), Holy and Profane States--Anger Anger is not only the prevailing sin of argument, but its greatest stumbling-block. - Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct. - William Goffe (Gough) A temperate anger has virtue in it. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself. - Joseph Hall Spleen can subsist on any kind of food. - William Hazlitt (1) The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints. - William Hazlitt (1) If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him. - George Herbert In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves. - Abraham Heschel A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb) Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Iliad (XVIII, 108) Anger is a short madness. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 2, 62) He has hay on his horns. [Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires (I, 4, 34) Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. - Zora Neale Hurston Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. - Robert Green Ingersoll When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, one hundred. - Thomas Jefferson The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Displaying page 3 of 7 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7
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