"Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on affection
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"The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on affection
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

Aurelius, Marcus on anger
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"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city."

Bible on anger
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"It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]"

Bible on anger
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"Let not the sun go down upon your wrath. [Ephesians 4:26]"

Bible on anger
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"Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. [Proverbs 29:8]"

Bible on anger   

"The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression. [Proverbs 19:11]"

Bible on anger   

"The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood, but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them. [Proverbs 12:6]"

Bible on anger
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"A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. [Proverbs 15:1]"

Bible on anger
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"The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger   

"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wring, but the coals are."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."

Barrie, Sir James M. on anger
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"Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor."

Bacon, Francis on anger
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"The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."

Aristotle on affection
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