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Anger: Quotations from Burning Words

An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.— E. L. MAGOON

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.— LAVATER

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which make us stronger for the time, but leave us weaker forever after.— DEAN SWIFT

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.— JEREMY TAYLOR

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.— BISHOP HALL

There was a man here last night - you needn't be afraid that I shall mention his name - who said that his will was given up to God, and who got mad because the omnibus was full, and he had to walk a mile to his lodgings.— D. L. MOODY

When I had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance to anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedemonians, never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.— PLUTARCH,

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. -— C. C. COLTON