"Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance."
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"There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy."
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"Take heed of the wrath of a mighty man, and the tumult of the people."
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"Bribed with a little sunlight and a few prismatic tints, we bless our Maker, and stave off his wrath with hymns."
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"I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God."
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"Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!"
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."
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"With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that they tremble or shed tears in earnest, although at that very moment, or a second later, they are able to whisper to themselves, "You know you are lying, you shameless old sinner! You're acting now, in spite of your 'holy' wrath."
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"The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk."
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"The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size."
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"If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do 'll make him feel rich."
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"The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath."
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"I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it."
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"As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world."
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"God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath."
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"You could make an analogy to a security guard who, three weeks prior, was mowing lawns for a living. The second he puts a uniform on and that badge, he's a man. I imagine the majority of us have felt the wrath of the over-zealous security guard guy. Is there something lying dormant in the man, that's waiting to be pumped up with that kind of power? I don't know. Does it reveal him? I don't know. Does it change him? I don't know."
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"The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath."
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"Reason finds it difficult to take root in the arid soil of wrath."
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