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Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
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.
He has hay on his horns.
[Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
He has hay on his horns.
[Lat., Foenum habet in cornu.]
When anger rises, think of the consequences
When anger rises, think of the consequences
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.
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.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
No man provokes me with impunity.
[Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]
No man provokes me with impunity.
[Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness. -James Thurber.
