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Buddha

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.

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Aristotle

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

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Mark Twain

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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Albert Einstein

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

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Maya Angelou

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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Buddha

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

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Ambrose Bierce

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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Mark Twain

When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.

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Thomas Jefferson

When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

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Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

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James Russell Lowell

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

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Confucius

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

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Christopher Morley

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

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Wayne Dyer

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

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Louis L'Amour

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.

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Richard M. Nixon

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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Colin Powell

Get mad, then get over it.

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Elizabeth Kenny

He who angers you conquers you.

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William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

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Francis Quarles

Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.

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Phyllis Diller

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

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Plato

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

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George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

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Epictetus

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

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Marcus Aurelius

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

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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Francis Bacon

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.

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Thomas a Kempis

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

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Alfred A. Montapert

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

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Robert Green Ingersoll

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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Laurence J. Peter

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

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Horace

Anger is a short madness.

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Francis Bacon

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

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Cato

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

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Sydney J. Harris

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

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Baltasar Gracian

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

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James Fallows

Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

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James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

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William Butler Yeats

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

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John Ruskin

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

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Thomas Fuller

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

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George Jean Nathan

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

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William Congreve

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

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Thomas Fuller

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

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Baltasar Gracian

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

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