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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.
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 is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything read more
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
No man provokes me with impunity.
[Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]
No man provokes me with impunity.
[Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays read more
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in
the bosom of a man like smoke.
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in
the bosom of a man like smoke.
