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Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
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 one of the sinews of the soul.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it
had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; read more
Anger wishes that all mankind had only one neck; love, that it
had only one heart; grief, two tear-glands; and pride, two bent
knees.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
[Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
[Lat., Ut fragilis glacies interit ira mora.]
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare read more
Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising opposition to oppression, and humor prevents them from being consumed by their fury.
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.
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.
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.