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  ...the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.
When anger rushes unrestrain'd to action, Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way. --SAVAGE.
Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.--PLUTARCH.
He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he is a wise man who will not.--SENECA.
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.--SHAKESPEARE.
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. --W.R. ALGER.
Anger is the most impotent passion that accompanies the mind of man; it effects nothing it goes about; and hurts the man who is possessed by it more than any other against whom it is directed.--CLARENDON.
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, a hundred. --JEFFERSON.
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.--CATO.
When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. --HALIBURTON.
Let not the sun go down upon your...   Alger, William R.

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