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ANGER quotes
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
When one is in a good sound rage, it is astonishing how calm one can be.
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.
Anger is the most impotent of passions.—It affects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.—We injure our own cause in the opinion of the world when we too passionately defend it.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.
Beware of the fury of a patient man.
He who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent a day of sorrow.
To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
A man . . . makes his inferiors his superiors by heat.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry.
Wise anger is like fire from the flint; there is a great ado to bring it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
When passion is on the throne reason is out of doors.
Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts; but in these the slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never take the shape and consistency of enduring hatred.
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable.—But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Temperate anger well becomes the wise.
He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
Frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which ofttimes ends in choler, bitterness, and morosity, when the mind becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept.—Abused patience turns to fury.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
When anger rushes, unrestrained, to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Rancour will out.
Consider, when you are enraged at anyone, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.
Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
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