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Anger

Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Barton, Clara

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself:'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.'When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Epictetus

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.

Buddha

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.

Quarles, Francis

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Colby, Frank Moore

There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.

SeVigne, Marquise De

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Diller, Phyllis

Between the anvil and the hammer.

Proverb, German

10.

Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Laurence J. Peter

12.

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton

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Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

Dickinson, Emily

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For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden

18.

Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

Churchill, Winston

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The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan, F. L.

20.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Bierce, Ambrose

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Every man is his own chief enemy.

Anacharsis

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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.

Curtis, George William

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He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Proverb

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It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]

Bible

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One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.

Hitopadesa

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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Heraclitus

29.

When danger approaches, sing to it.

Proverb, Arabian

30.

Danger, the spur of all great minds.

Chapman, George

31.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Lincoln, Abraham

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The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.

Bhagavad Gita

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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.

Selden, John

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Act nothing in a furious passion. It's putting to sea in a storm.

Fuller, Thomas

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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

38.

The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.

Maxim, Samurai

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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

40.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

Harris, Sidney J.

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I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Alfredsson, Helen

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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching

43.

The worst tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong.

Mizner, Wilson

44.

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

Mckay, David O.

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There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Proverb

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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger.

Swing, Raymond G.

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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself,if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.

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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are.

Beecher, Henry Ward