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Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger?
(Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XXXI.4 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest.)
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Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:
Those who are free from anger are free from death.
(Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XXXI.10 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest.)
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Anger is a brief lunacy.
(Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.), Roman poet. Epistles, bk. 1, epistle 2 (22-8 B.C.).)
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O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Olivia, in Twelfth Night, act 3, sc. 1, l. 145-6.
After an interview with Cesario, really Viola in disguise.)
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From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.
(Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), U.S. president. Letter, January 23, 1838, to Martin Van Buren, Van Buren Papers, Library of Congress.
About John Quincy Adams.)
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Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
(George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans] (1819-1880), British novelist. The Mill on the Floss, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1860).)
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Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail,
So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.
(Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XXXI.7 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest.)
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