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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."
"So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened."
"When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless."
"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."
"The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation."
"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life."
"Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute."
"A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content."
"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."
"When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself."
"Like fragile ice anger passes away in time."
"Anger assists hands however weak."
"In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength."
"When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life."
"I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him."
"Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt."
"A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger."
"Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will."
"Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything."
"The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes."
