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~~ Anger ~~

~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


 1. A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

 2. Abused patience turns to fury.

 3. Act nothing in a furious passion.

 4. Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes.

 5. An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.

 6. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

 7. Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

 8. Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

 9. Anger is a wind, which blows out the lamp of the mind.

10. Anger is momentary madness.

11. Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

12. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

13. Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.

14. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

15. Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance.

16. Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.

17. Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not easy.

18. Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend on yourself.

19. As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.

20. Beware of him that is slow to anger; anger, when it is long in coming, is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.

21. But if you quell your own anger, Your real enemy will be slain.

22. For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love - this is an old rule.

23. Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

24. Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

25. Hatred is inveterate anger.

26. Hatred is self-punishment.

27. Hatred is something peculiar.

28. Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

29. Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

30. Hatreds are the cinders of affection.

31. He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

32. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins 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.

33. He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

34. He whose anger causes no fear, Who can confer no benefit when pleased, Who can neither destroy nor subjugate, What good is such a man's anger? How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

35. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.

36. I was angry with my foe; I told it not, my wrath did grow.

37. I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

38. If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

39. If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself.

40. If you have written a clever and conclusive, but scathing letter, keep it back till the next day, and it will very often never go at all.

41. In rage deaf as the sea; hasty as fire.

42. Indulge not thyself in the passion of Anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

43. It's putting to sea in a storm.

44. Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.

45. Malice drinks one half of its own poison.

46. Most men know what they hate; few know what they love.

47. Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

48. Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

49. Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

50. Take care that no one hates you justly.

51. That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

52. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip over the meshes of good counsel, the cripple.

53. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

54. The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

55. The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

56. The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man.it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

57. There is no medicine to cure hatred.

58. There is such malice in men as to rejoice in misfortunes and from another's woes to draw delight.

59. Think when you are enraged at any one, what would probably become your sentiments should he die during the dispute.

60. To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

61. To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

62. We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

63. We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

64. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

65. Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.

66. When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

67. When anger rises, think of the consequences.

68. When angry, count ten before you speak, if very angry, a hundred.

69. When one God dwells in all living beings, then why do you hate others? Why do you frown at others? Why do you become indignant towards others? Why do you use harsh words? Why do you try to rule and domineer over others? Why do you exploit folly? Is this not sheer ignorance? Get wisdom and rest in peace.

70. When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.

71. Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead.

72. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.


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