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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.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
1833-1899, American Orator,
Lawyer
Anger is a
wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
1833-1899, American Orator,
Lawyer
Temper never
mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool
that grows keener with constant use.
-- Washington Irving
1783-1859, American Author
When angry,
count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one
hundred.
-- Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of
the USA
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The best
remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
-- Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist
A wave of
anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the
time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a
riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside
himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in
which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.
-- Milan Kundera
1929-, Czech Author, Critic
The flame of
anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
-- Walter Savage Landor
1775-1864, British Poet,
Essayist
When I am
angry I can pray well and preach well.
-- Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of
the Protestant Reformation
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