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Marcus Porcius Cato the Elder
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| "An over-taxed patience gives way to fierce anger. ? Furor fit lęsa
sępius patientia." | |
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Publilius Syrus
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| "Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct
understanding." | |
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Mahatma Gandhi
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| "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects
than love." | |
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George Eliot
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| "Anger as soon as fed is dead ? "Tis starving makes it fat." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance." | |
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Pythagoras
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| "Anger blows out the lamp of the mind." | |
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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| "Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage
leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from
him." | |
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| "Anger is a short madness." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too
awful to experience directly ? hurt, bitterness, grief, and, mostof all,
fear." | |
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Joan Rivers
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| "Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good
one." | |
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Geogre Saville
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| "Anger is one of the sinews of the Soul; he that wants it hath a
maimed mind." | |
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Thomas Fuller
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| "Anger is seldom without an argument but seldom with a good
one." | |
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George Savile, Lord Halifax
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| "Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes
about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against
whom it is directed." | |
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Edward Hyde Clarendon
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| "Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed
often hardens into revenge." | |
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Sir Henry Bulwer
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| "Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the
injury that provokes it." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Angry men make themselves beds of nettles." | |
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Samuel Richardson
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| "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be,
since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be." | |
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Thomas ą Kempis
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| "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have
entertained Angers unawares." | |
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The Bible
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| "Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it
is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns
to fury." | |
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Francis Quarles
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| "Beware the fury of a patient man." | |
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John Dryden
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| "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of
peace of mind." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Get mad, then get over it." | |
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Colin Powell
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| "Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." | |
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Zora Neale Hurston
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| "He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will
not." | |
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Plato
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| "He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger." | |
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Aristotle
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| "He who angers you conquers you." | |
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Elizabeth Kenny
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| "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of
throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." | |
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Guatama Buddha
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| "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes
of it." | |
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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| "I have an axe to grind." | |
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Proverb
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| "I never work better than when I am inspired by anger; for when I am
angry, I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament
is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and
temptations depart." | |
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Martin Luther
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| "I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was
angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow." | |
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William Blake
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| "If a man is crossing a river and an empty boat collides with his own
skiff, even though he be a bad-tempered man he will not become very angry.
But if he sees a man in the boat, he will shout at him to steer clear. If
the shout is not heard, he will shout" | |
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Chuang Tzu
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| "If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the
lowest common denominator of human achievement." | |
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Jimmy Carter
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| "In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased
striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly,
just as it is to be angry with a car that won"t go." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has
charged you with anything, you better look it up." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "No man is angry that feels not himself hurt." | |
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Francis Bacon
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| "One should not lose one"s temper unless one is certain of getting
more and more angry to the end." | |
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William Butler Yeats
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| "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will
ever regret." | |
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Ambrose Bierce
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| "Speak when you?re angry, and you?ll make the best speech you?ll ever
regret." | |
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Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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| "Sticks and stones may break your bones when there"s anger to
impart." | |
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Unknown
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| "The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of
love." | |
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Walter Savage Landor
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| "The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to
others, but hides us from ourselves. We injure our own cause in the
opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it." | |
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Charles Caleb Colton
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| "The man against whom you feel anger in your heart Is not to be
admonished by mere words. First, subdue him by force, And then use your
weapon of words." | |
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Nagarjuna
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| "The moment a man or a woman becomes angry they show a great
weakness." | |
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Wilford Woodruff
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| "The size of a man can be measured by the size of the thing that
makes him angry." | |
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J. Kenfield Morley
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| "There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of
those on whom they wish to vent their spleen." | |
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Alexandre Dumas
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| "Thomas Jefferson?s Decalogue of Canons X. When angry, count ten
before you speak; if very angry, a hundred." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be
furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the
practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising
resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine." | |
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Isaac Watts
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| "To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "To rule one"s anger is well; to prevent it is still better." | |
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Tryon Edwards
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| "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "When a man is wrong and won"t admit is, he always gets angry." | |
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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| "When anger rises, think of the consequences." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action, like a hot steed, it
stumbles in its way." | |
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Richard Savage
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| "When angry, count four; when very angry, swear." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong.
So we were often angry at each other." | |
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Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle
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| "Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a Present
evil, but that you have increased a habit." | |
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Epictetus
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| "While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He
spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not
actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled." | |
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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
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