Many Thoughts of Many Minds - A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Various
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Men in rage strike those that wish them best.--SHAKESPEARE.
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.--W.R. ALGER. Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.--CLARENDON. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. --JEFFERSON. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.--CATO. When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. --HALIBURTON. Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.--EPHESIANS 4:26. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.--PYTHAGORAS. Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve of in another.--PASQUIER QUESNEL. ANXIETY.--Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.--BURKE. Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events?--BLAIR. |
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