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Anger should never be an overnight guest.
Anger should never be an overnight guest.
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
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.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you read more
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Cato -Marcus Antonius.
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 may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been read more
Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; norcan the dead ever be brought back to life. Hence the enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. This is the way to keep a country at peace and an army intact.
Anger is a short madness.
Anger is a short madness.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had read more
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.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas read more
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help. Clarendon -Thomas Fuller.