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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
 Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
 Those best can fear reproof who merit praise.  
 Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
 Those best can fear reproof who merit praise. 
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering read more
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
 Alas! they had been friends in youth;
 But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in read more 
 Alas! they had been friends in youth;
 But whispering tongues can poison truth,
  And constancy lives in realms above;
   And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
    And to be wrothe with one we love
     Doth work like madness in the brain. 
 Deaf rage that hears no leader.
 [Ger., Dem tauben Grimm, der keinen Fuhrer hort.]  
 Deaf rage that hears no leader.
 [Ger., Dem tauben Grimm, der keinen Fuhrer hort.] 
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your 
wrath: Neither give place to read more 
 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your 
wrath: Neither give place to the devil.