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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
He has hay on his horns.
[Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
He has hay on his horns.
[Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Golda Meir.
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. -Golda Meir.
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. read more
Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains. -Helen Douglas.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as read more
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.
Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.