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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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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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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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Not from this anger, anticlimax after
Refusal struck her loin and the lame flower
Bent like a beast to lap the singular floods....
(Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Not from this anger.")
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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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You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.
(Sophocles (497-406/5 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Oedipus Colonus, l. 334.)
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A valiant man, Sire, fears no enemy, but the righteous anger of noble women weighs upon him as a heavy burden.
(Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Garceran, in The Jewess of Toledo, act 1 (1873).)
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
(Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Phaon, in Sappho, act 5, sc. 4 (1819).)
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