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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, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as read more
Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.
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 as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Anger as soon as fed is dead — 'Tis starving makes it fat.
Deaf rage that hears no leader.
[Ger., Dem tauben Grimm, der keinen Fuhrer hort.]
Deaf rage that hears no leader.
[Ger., Dem tauben Grimm, der keinen Fuhrer hort.]
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right read more
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
Keep cool; anger is not an argument. -Daniel Webster.
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly... -Proverbs 14:17a.
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly... -Proverbs 14:17a.
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as read more
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
