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Quotations
On Anger
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- Lamentation
is the only musician
that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an
angry
man.—Plutarch.
And
to be wroth with
one we love
Doth work
like madness
in the brain.
—Coleridge.
- Anger
is
implanted in us as
a sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to
make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
When anger
rushes
unrestrain'd to action,
Like a hot
steed, it
stumbles in its way.
—Savage.
- He is
a
fool who cannot be angry;
but he is a wise man who will not.—Seneca.
- 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.
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- 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.
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