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Khati I NULL

The tongue of a man is his weapon, and speech is mightier than fighting.

Character | Fighting | Man | Speech |

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Roger L'Estrange, fully Sir Roger L'Estrange

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Character | Judgment |

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Yeruchem Levovitz, aka The Mashgiach

Peace of mind is essential for obtaining many virtues. Its absence leads to all types of shortcomings. When you have peace of mind, you can use your mind constructively. Lack of peace of mind breeds anger and resentment. The quality of one’s prayers and blessings is dependent on the mastery of one’s thoughts... Only when a person has peace of mind can he really feel love for humanity. Lack of peace of mind leads to animosity towards others. Peace of mind leads to love.

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Yeruchem Levovitz, aka The Mashgiach

Anger is a deadly poison not only for the soul, but even for the body. We should flee from anger as we would from the worst torture.

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Mordechai of Lekhivitz NULL

Repentance should be with joy. If repentance is sincere, the person will be joyful even though he is humble. If repentance is insincere, the person will be depressed and irritable and will react with anger toward people who speak with him.

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Petrarch, anglicized from Italian name Francesco Petrarca NULL

Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

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Philemon NULL

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

Anger | Character | Wise |

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Publius Syrus

With the good man anger is quick to die.

Anger | Character | Good | Man |

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Francis Quarles

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confide thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Character | Enough | Words |

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Francis Quarles

A fool's heart is in his tongue; but a wise man's tongue is in his heart.

Character | Heart | Man | Wise |

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Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

The aim that comedy has in view is the same as that of the highest destiny of man, and this consists in liberating himself from the influence of violent passions, and taking a calm and lucid survey of all that surrounds him, and also of his own being, and of seeing everywhere occurrence rather than fate or hazard, and ultimately rather smiling at the absurdities than shedding tears and feeling anger at sight of the wickedness of man.

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Sappho NULL

When anger swells the heart, the idly-barking tongue restrain.

Anger | Character | Heart |

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Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof

Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

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Jeremy Taylor

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.

Anger | Cause | Character | Fury |

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John Greenleaf Whittier

For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."

Character | Words |

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Heinrich Zachokke, fully Johann Heinrich Daniel Zachokke

Nothing presents a more mournful aspect than a family divided by anger and animosity.

Anger | Character | Family | Nothing |

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